* A college diploma isn’t worth what it used to be. To get hired, grads today need hard skills.
* Let’s play “Count the Acronym” in this sentence, from the ACF’s Transitional Living Program and Maternity Group Homes: “The Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) is accepting applications for the Transitional Living Program (TLP) and for Maternity Group Homes (MGH) funding opportunity announcement (FOA). TLPs provide an alternative to involving RHY in the law enforcement, child welfare, mental health, and juvenile justice systems.”
* Someone found us by searching for, “how do you keep your youthbuild grant”. Here’s how: by providing the services you promised to provide and filling out your DOL reports thoroughly and on time.
* Another person found us by searching for “expert nih grant writer”. You’ve come to the right place!
* Why Are Teen Moms Poor? Surprising new research shows it’s not because they have babies. They have babies because they’re poor. Emile Zola more or less got this point in 1885 in his masterpiece, Germinal.
* Why the U.S. has an artificially low savings rate: we take money from the young, who might save for later and have a low discount rate, and give it to the elderly, who want to spend it now because they have a high discount rate.
* Against chairs. I want a GeekDesk.
* Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments for Teachers; I try to follow them, especially the one about arguing via authority.
* Learning that works: rethinking vocational education. This is positive step, and I’m noticing more and more people making these kinds of arguments.
* The Real E-Publishing Story: It’s Not the Millionaires, It’s the Midlist.
* Game over for the climate, which is one of those important articles you won’t read.
* “As an outsider I hear plenty of what America does wrong, I want to hear what they do right.”
* The World as We Know It Is About to End, Say Some Really Frightened Scientists.
* A lot of what’s wrong with public schools can be surmised from How did this parent end up in jail? Kelley Williams-Bolar just wanted her kids to go to a safer school — then her story took an unexpected turn.