Growing up a latchkey kid meant learning to handle quite a lot of things on your own. Gen X was born between 1965 and 1980, which means this year they'll be turning 45 to 60 years old. As a smaller ...

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Did you learn everything you needed to know in kindergarten? I sure hope not! If you learned everything you needed to know at 5 years old, you wouldn’t, in all likelihood, be reading this piece, ...

Teaching isn’t just about lesson plans, grades, or classroom rules. It’s about moments that stay long after the bell rings.

“You only learn half the things you need to know in the classroom.” When I first heard that saying, I brushed it off as something adults said to make school sound deeper than it really was. But now, a ...

A lifelong approach to learning is an integral part of becoming a successful leader. Learning—whether formalized or not—allows us to broaden our horizons, understand diverse viewpoints and open ...

At the Life Skills Lab at George Mickelson Middle School in Brookings, students with different abilities are learning valuable life lessons like making cookies.

The pressure put on women by society is immense. We are expected to be attractive, compelling, intelligent, and high-achieving. We need to fill our wallets, so to speak, while being maternal and ...

Chris Cox’s relationship with horses runs deep. They were the only means of transportation on the ranch in Australia where he grew up and have been his livelihood, as a renowned professional horseman ...

From embracing simplicity to spending time in nature year-round, Finland offers valuable life lessons—no matter what you think of the World Happiness Report. For the eighth year in a row, Finland has ...

Businesses play a critical role in building a new, integrated system of learning and work because they see change first. They ...