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Learn Science at Nature. HowStuffWorks "Science". Lessons Worth Sharing. This Is What Happens When A Kid Leaves Traditional Education. Logan Laplante is a 13 year-old boy who was taken out of the education system to be home schooled instead.

This Is What Happens When A Kid Leaves Traditional Education

Not only was he home schooled, but Logan had the ability to tailor his education to his interests and also his style of learning, something traditional education does not offer. As Logan has mentioned, when he grows up he wants to be happy and healthy. At a TEDx talk in 2013, he discussed how hacking his education is helping him achieve that goal. Logan’s story can be seen in a similar light as Jacob Barnett‘s story who was first put in Special Ed by his school until he was pulled out of standard education and is now seen as an incredibly intelligent young person who is on track to winning a Nobel Prize one day.

I also recently did a TEDx talk in 2014 about my story of leaving college for good. More on Education & Homeschooling Currently about 3.8% of children ages 5 – 17 are home schooled in the US. Does Education Kill Creativity? Sources: Learn To Use Your Thoughts To Reverse Aging! 6 Education websites you may not have seen. RSA Animate RSA Animate is a You Tube channel from RSA.org that contains a series of thought provoking videos about education, economics and a variety of other important topics such as this one about human behavior and what motivates us.

6 Education websites you may not have seen

After watching this video you will want to share it with your bosses, managers, CEO's, politicians and other people in power. One of my personal favorites is this one that describes the changing paradigm shift in education by Sir Ken Robinson. RSA Animate currently has 18 videos in their collection and I highly recommend you check out their collection of videos. Problem Attic The school year is more than half over and end of the year state exams are looming. If you teach science, social studies, math, or ELA at the secondary level then you should really take a look at Problem-Attic. Learners TV Learners TV is an online resource that provides thousands of videos, lectures, tests, and animations on a wide array of college subjects and disciplines. How To Read Tabs.

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An MBA for less than $1,000

(Poets&Quants) -- If everything goes according to plan, Laurie Pickard will earn her MBA in three years for less than $1,000. She'll take classes from Harvard, Wharton, and Yale, among other top-tier schools. And she'll tackle it all while keeping her full-time job as a rural enterprise development and entrepreneurship specialist at USAID. She'll accomplish all of this from Kigali, Rwanda. It sounds too good to be true. Pickard didn't plan to pave the way for earning a dirt-cheap business education. "I was looking at traditional, U.S. Pickard scoured the Internet to find other MOOC MBAs, but came up dry. Only a year ago, it would not have been possible to even consider getting the equivalent of an MBA via MOOCs. Pickard developed her program by reviewing B-school curricula at Wharton, Harvard, Stanford, and MIT. Four months in, Pickard has completed five courses.

Pickard also doesn't seem to mind the virtual component. More from Poets&Quants: 12 Dozen Places To Educate Yourself Online For Free. Zinn Education Project.