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People We Love :: Carol Beckley
by Kim Eckartposted Apr 13, 2010 - Cultivating a rural community.
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Freeing the Spirit of Change
by Rabbi Ted Falconposted Apr 09, 2010 - Ethical behavior and loving generosity are at the core of faith—so why is the world hurting? Rabbi Ted Falcon on why paying attention to our interconnection is the first step toward healing.
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A $67 Billion Victory for Students
by David Bollierposted Apr 01, 2010 - The student loan program was socializing risks and privatizing profits. New legislation will let students skip the corporate middlemen.
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Brett Dennen on the Healing Power of Music
by Madeline Ostranderposted Mar 11, 2010 - Though he’s climbed to the top ten of the indie music charts and won accolades from Rolling Stone, 30-year-old musician Brett Dennen says his most important work to date has been with children at The Mosaic Project, a small outdoor school in the Napa Hills of California.
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Ending the Trance, Answering the Call
by Rabbi Ted Falconposted Mar 09, 2010 - Passover invites us to shake off the old stories of limitation, and create new ones of possibility and service.
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Brett Dennen: My Most Important Songs
by Madeline Ostranderposted Mar 04, 2010 - A little-known album by pop star Brett Dennen is still changing lives at The Mosaic Project, teaching kids to stand up to intolerance.
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Can Money Buy Education?
by Shannon Hayesposted Mar 02, 2010 - Radical homemaker Shannon Hayes taught her daughter that their family doesn't buy things they can make or grow at home. She then had to wonder: Does that include higher education?
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The New Economy Challenge: Implications for Higher Education
by David Kortenposted Feb 05, 2010 - If we are to build a sustainable economy and an Earth community, our educational goals and structures will have to change. David Korten asks what it will take to retool and reskill our society.
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Smarter School Lunches
by Ellen Mahoneyposted Jan 12, 2010 - Healthy, local food for all kids? "Renegade Lunch Lady" Ann Cooper is starting a revolution in school cafeterias.
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Honoring Nathan Huggins, Martin, and Malcolm
by Grace Lee Boggsposted Dec 10, 2009 - I spoke (via Skype) to the graduate students Symposium at Harvard University on December 5, the 20th anniversary of the death of Nathan Huggins, former director of the university's DuBois Center.
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A Lifelong Search for Real Education
by Julia Putnamposted Sep 09, 2009 - Grace Lee and Jimmy Boggs brought people together to rebuild inner-city Detroit and to teach the things you can’t learn in a classroom. At 94, Grace is still at it.
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What Draft Horses Teach College Students
by Sean Roseposted Sep 09, 2009 - The students at Sterling College learn from demanding teachers—like a stubborn, 2,000-pound draft horse or the campus cows.
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Trade Your Job
by Valerie Saturenposted Sep 09, 2009 - The old apprenticeship model of learning by doing gets new life as people who’ve been left out of the job market train to meet the growing demand for green-collar workers.
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Youths Face the Holocaust
by Lynsi Burtonposted Sep 09, 2009 - Facing History connects students to people who have witnessed injustice, like artist and Holocaust survivor Ava Kadishson Schieber.
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Melia Reschools Herself
by Lynsi Burtonposted Sep 09, 2009 - For her one-woman project, Reschool Yourself, Melia Dicker revisited her childhood classrooms, shadowing students and interviewing teachers to figure out how school had defined her adulthood.
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