Money-Smart Kids: No money for money education?

Money-Smart Kids No money for money education? By Tom Henske From Westport News Online Last week — while reading Karen Blumenthal‘s article in The Wall Street Journal, “Is There a Cure for Financial Literacy?” — I was reminded of one of the impediments to improving financial literacy in our country. Citing data from The Jumpstart Coalition, Karen reminds [...]

Video: College dropout turned entrepreneur

WordPress entrepreneur Matt Mullenweg says he loves being an entrepreneur instead of working for someone else, though he sometimes wishes he didn’t drop out of college.

11-year-old college graduate

From HuffingtonPost.com Meet Moshe Kai Cavalin, the 11-year-old who just finished setting the bar impossibly high for college students everywhere. Not only did this youngster just graduate from college at the age of 11, but he did so with honors, holding down a 4.0 GPA, and his favorite subject is astrophysics. He is also an accomplished martial [...]

High School Drop Out Rates cost the US Billions

High School drop out rates affect our economy in vast and numerous ways.  Eating at the core of our job market and economic growth as a whole we are faced with the question of what to do with our education system.  Our nations High School drop out rates are only growing and the expense of [...]

Understanding your child’s ADHD

Understanding ADHD by Robert Shorn From EZineArticles.com A lot of kids that have ADD or ADHD in public schools are having problems because the teachers have labeled them as trouble makers since the start. Teachers look at kids that talk a lot, are hard to get to sit still or constantly playing with things as [...]

Warren Buffett gives financial advice to Girl Scouts

Financial Guru Warren Buffett meets with an Omaha Girl Scout troupe at a local Dairy Queen to talk money. See what he has to say about college students and investing.

Feature: Susan Beacham follows her dreams with financial education for kids

We’re all familiar with the traditional piggy bank. The cute curly tail, smiling piggy face, and slot on its back for depositing cash. It teaches kids to save their money at an early age, produces a hearty jingle from the coins when shaken, and offers a certain satisfaction when the time comes to break it [...]

The Voice of the 21st Century Student is Speaking..are we Listening?

This guy is really amazing on so many levels and for so many reasons.  Dan Brown has put me in a state of Awe because of his Audacious Fearless Ambition.  He speaks the truth and speaks for our Youth.   Please listen up and open your minds and be aware that he is not the far and [...]

Educating the Entrepreneur starts in Iowa.

Educe…the word is Latin and implies the drawing out of or the bringing out of something… ‘potential.’  The word Educate derives from this Latin word Educe.  Interesting how we have known this for years yet need reminded.  Educating never truly meant to teach us the WAY or tell us the answer.  It just meant to lead us [...]

Shift Happens!

Don’t let this scare you.  Just be aware that constant learning has to be the way we GROW along with the change.

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