7 10, 2019

Is STEM Over-rated?

By | October 7th, 2019|Categories: Education|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

If you’re a parent with children in K-12 education, you have likely been STEMed to death in recent years. In primary and secondary education, we are bombarded by STEM this and STEM that. As I’m sure you know by now, STEM is a hot topic these days in the ongoing debate about how to best [...]

1 04, 2014

Blessings of the Thin Envelope

By | April 1st, 2014|Categories: Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

A number of my clients and other young people I know just received their college acceptance and rejection letters. Not surprisingly, some are ecstatic and others are devastated. Frank Bruni, the New York Times columnist, wrote a piece today that put the exercise of college acceptance and rejection into a healthy perspective. Reading the column [...]