Lifelong Learning

What do you need to know and how will you learn it?

Lessons from My Mother’s Village Kitchen

by Madhu Suri Prakash

posted Feb 13, 2009

Schools, fresh foods, and memories from India. Madhu Suri Prakash reflects on the culinary traditions of her family.

Fresh from … the City

by Mark Winne

posted Feb 13, 2009

Citizens and local policymakers join up to get fresh foods to schools and neighborhoods.

Sustainable Happiness Discussion Guide

by Kristin Carlsen, Jon Sayer

posted Nov 07, 2008

How happy are we really? Have the things we thought would make us happy done so? This issue of YES! explores different ways to find happiness: meditate, de-stress the holidays, restore the earth, embrace the bad with the good, simplify, and downsize. What makes you happy?

Sustainable Happiness Resource Guide

by Noah Grant, Kristin Carlsen, Jon Sayer

posted Nov 05, 2008

This resource guide highlights steps you can take to be happier yourself and to support a healthier society—by building stronger communities, creating joyful and purposeful activities for yourself and others, practicing mindfulness, finding healing, learning to live more simply, and building a society that prioritizes happiness over accumulation of wealth.

Blessings Revealed

by Puanani Burgess

posted Oct 31, 2008

Puanani Burgess tells the story of one student with a gift—a gift our schools are not cultivating.

Update :: Children Helping Children

by Layla Aslani

posted Jul 30, 2008

9 years ago in YES! … we reported on 16-year-old Craig Kielburger who, at age 12, got together with some friends to form Free The Children (FTC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to abolishing child labor worldwide. Today … we check in on the work of Free The Children.

Equality U

posted Jul 18, 2008

Equality U is a feature-length documentary following 33 young activists on a cross-country tour to confront anti-gay discrimination policies at conservative religious colleges.

Reclaiming Our Freedom to Learn

by Gustavo Esteva

posted Nov 07, 2007

Creating alternatives to traditional schools, in Oaxaca they created their own university, "unitierra", where students learn whatever they want to learn, where students are their communities, and learn by apprenticeship.

Education, by Rights

by Liz Sullivan, Cecilia Blewer

posted Feb 06, 2007

Teach the Children: How do we build a school system that serves the needs of all students? Human rights provides a solid foundation.

Organic Produce Goes to School

by Rebecca Clarren

posted Oct 04, 2005

Farmers are struggling to stay on the land. Meanwhile, obesity is epidemic among U.S. children. A movement is creating a solution to both problems by linking schools to sources of local organic produce. The kids don’t seem to miss the deep fryers.

Study Circle Democracy

by Cecile Andrews

posted Dec 31, 2002

Deliberative democracy through study circles.

Dream of a Ridiculous Man

by Charles W., Joan C. Pratt

posted Jun 30, 2001

A story of Patrick Lydon and the Camphill Communities.

Now I Become Myself

by Parker Palmer

posted Mar 31, 2001

Parker Palmer writes about finding his vocation and the link between self and service

Universal Education

by John Taylor Gatto

posted Nov 02, 1998

A former New York teacher of the year, John Taylor Gatto, says real education is about learning wisdom, self-reliance, culture, and leadership, not fitting kids in the economy's pigeonholes

Paving Paradise

by Heidi Werver

posted Mar 31, 1998

Traditional methods didn't work for the troubled students at the Pan Terra Alternative High School, so counselor Larry Davies turned to nature to help teach and heal them.