Teaching People To Visualize An Outcome Is More Effective Than Teaching People What To Do: Study

September 3, 2017 Natural Living

By Josh Richardson An established but little-known psychological theory is likely to improve performances across a range of activities, including sport, according to new research published that can be applied to amateurs or skilled performers alike says psychologist Dr Warren Mansell, from The University of Manchester. Many philosophers believed that all behaviors are predetermined and […]

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Arkansas School Starts Offering Yoga and Meditation Instead of Detention

September 1, 2017 Health And WellnessVideo

By Anna Hunt A school in Jonesboro, Arkansas, has joined many others in turning to an alternative method of discipline. The Success Achievement Academy has stopped using in-school suspension as punishment. Instead, the directors started using yoga as a means of helping students relieve stress and recognize responsibility for their actions. But does yoga instead […]

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How Schooling Crushes Creativity

July 21, 2017 Natural Health News

By Kerry McDonald How Schooling Crushes Creativity In 2006, educator and author Ken Robinson gave a TED Talk called, “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” At over 45 million views, it remains the most viewed talk in TED’s history. Robinson’s premise is simple: our current education system strips young people of their natural creativity and curiosity by shaping […]

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Why I No Longer Ask Kids How They are Doing in School

May 29, 2017 Health And Wellness

By Kevin Currie-Knight As a rule, I no longer ask school age-children how they’re doing in school. Let me explain why. Recently, my wife and I took a trip to see family and friends, several of whom have school-age children. I noticed that when adults interact with children, one of the first questions they pose is […]

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It’s a Great Time to Be a Homeschooler

May 4, 2017 Home And Garden

By Kerry McDonald Homeschoolers are a diverse bunch. Our teaching approaches and learning philosophies vary. Our politics run the gamut and our visions of education reform differ greatly. Yet, despite these contrasts, homeschoolers are remarkably similar. I recently asked a large, eclectic group of homeschooling parents why they chose this education option for their children. Key […]

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This Elementary School Abolished Homework, and the Results Were Astonishing

March 12, 2017 Health And Wellness

By Annie Holmquist Late last summer, Texas teacher Brandy Young made internet waves when she sent a note about homework to the parents of her students. Instead of the normal spend-30-minutes-a-day-on-homework command that parents normally hear, Mrs. Young’s note informed them that she would not be giving homework at all. Instead, she asked families to spend more […]

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Farming Preschool Would Teach Kids How to Grow Their Own Food

January 24, 2017 Home And Garden

By Organic and Healthy While many adults are currently looking at how to grow their own food, the future may already be in front of our eyes: One school aims to teach kids how to grown their own food as part of a nursery! A few clever Italians have come up with an amazing proposal, […]

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Beat The System With This List Of 40 Free Education Websites

December 29, 2016 Health And Wellness

By True Activist According to www.webometrics.info, there are more than 17 000 universities, but getting a degree in many of them is quite costly. Many students around the world(and their families) get into big debt or have to work over sixty hours a week in order to afford an education. Two-thirds of the US college seniors who graduated […]

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The Internet Cheers This Teacher’s New Homework Policy

August 22, 2016 Natural Living

Op-ed by Heather Callaghan I had to share this awesome teacher’s homework policy – I remember with regret the dread of hours of homework during school and trying to get out of it any way possible… It consumed my childhood. I should have been playing, but any type of levity was only fraught with the nagging loom […]

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Gardasil in Colombia: Protesting Parents Make Progress After 4 Day Stand-off

July 18, 2016 Vaccines

By Norma Erickson, President SaneVax Inc Last week, the parents of hundreds of girls experiencing new medical conditions after Gardasil administration blocked classes in educational institutions by padlocking the entrances to local schools. These families claim hundreds of affected girls have been left without treatment for two years while the government refuses to acknowledge the HPV vaccine could […]

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Doctors Making Parents “Admit” They Are “Knowingly Endangering Their Child’s Life” with New Vaccine Refusal Form

June 28, 2016 Vaccines

By Piper McGowin The new vaccine refusal form, produced by the American Academy of Pediatrics to be handed out in doctors’ offices across the country to parents who don’t want to vaccinate their kids, essentially forces those parents to incriminate themselves and “admit” that by signing they are knowingly putting their child’s life and health at […]

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Can You Pass an 8th Grade Spelling Quiz from 1904?

May 3, 2016 Home And Garden

By Natural Blaze This is an easy to take quiz that might not be that easy. That’s because spelling was a serious subject in 1904. Although students in the 1900s were glued to their tablets, they wrote on them repeatedly with chalk. Corrective, squiggly underlines were made by teachers and “auto-correct” would have meant quite […]

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Colorado Sends Non-Vaccinating Parents ILLEGAL Order To “Register Their Child With The State”

May 3, 2016 Vaccines

By Mac Slavo Here’s the fraud of the State in action. It seems that the Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Environment sent out a letter to parents demanding that those who have not vaccinated their children register them on a state website under requirement by law … the only problem is that there is […]

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New Preschool Teaches Gardening And Urban Farming

March 1, 2016 Food Freedom

By John Vibes A new preschool is teaching children gardening and urban farming, and many of their classes are hands-on, working on an actual farm. Edoardo Capuzzo Dolcetta and a team of other designers have been working to bring children closer to nature during their studies and teach them skills that they will actually need […]

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School Built by Thai “Solar Monk” is Lighting Souls and Lighting Communities

February 6, 2016 Environment

By Brian Berletic What if school not only taught you the basics like reading, writing, and arithmetic, but also how to build a community from the ground up? With these skills, you could specialize in any field from the humanities to science and technology, and apply them directly to improving your community and your country. […]

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The Big Decision: To Go To College Or Not

February 2, 2016 Video

By Andrew Demeter “The Big Decision” explores America’s system of college education. Why do most students enroll? How can the problem of student debt be solved? And in what ways can alternatives to college, such as trade schools, be promoted? Andrew Demeter is a young American political activist, amateur filmmaker, entrepreneur, journalist, and author who’s […]

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Government Concerned That Homeschool Parents Are “Radicalizing” Their Children

December 24, 2015 Natural Living

By John Vibes Education Secretary Nicky Morgan of the UK has recently voiced concerns that children are not receiving the proper brand of brainwashing and indoctrination from the government. Morgan called for a review of homeschooling and suggested that thousands of children are being “radicalized” by their parents. “There has always been the freedom in […]

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This Prank Proved That Americans Don’t Read Past Headlines

September 29, 2015 Health And WellnessNatural Health News

By Heather Callaghan But it may have proven more… A social media April Fool’s prank spearheaded by NPR in 2014 is – ironically – drawing some reflection. This isn’t one of those frustrating social media psychology tests without the users’ knowledge. It appears to have been a lighthearted joke and a thank you to readers. NPR posed […]

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Dark Japanese Animation On The Stress Of Being A Child In School

September 14, 2015 Natural LivingUncategorized

by Sophie McAdam ‘Children’ takes a critical look at the education system’s obsession with perfection ‘Children’ is a short animation exploring the dark side of schooling. Created by Japanese illustrator Okada Takuya, it portrays a gray world, a gray neighbourhood, a gray school with gray classrooms. In it sit rows of gray children, indistinguishable from […]

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This US School District Is The First To Serve 100% Organic, GMO-Free Meals

August 29, 2015 GMOUncategorized

By Amanda Froelich Not only will children consume healthier fare, they’ll also learn about nutrition and gardening. Schools in California’s Sausalito Marin County District will be the first in the nation to serve their students 100% organic meals, sustainably sourced and free of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). As EcoWatch reports, more than 500 students at […]

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