Huffington Post Article:::University of the People

"The extent to which information and knowledge is being offered free online is impressive. It allows people to study at no charge, whenever and whatever they choose.    You 

can watch an MIT lecture in Vietnam or read an article by a Nobel Prize winner from a refugee camp in the Sudan. The free flow of information online and access to quality open access material must be furthered, but we must also remember that open access alone is not sufficient to the democratization of education."read the full article here.

University of the People Website

http://www.uopeople.org/

Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education | Video on TED.com

WHAT WILL THEY LEARN.COM

^Visit the website^

 to compare colleges of interest 

to find rankings based on Alumni feedback 

find out what they learned versus what colleges :::say::: they teach.

Seminar Style Classrooms May Win...

An article from Education News.org  that confirms Children learn more quickly if the brightest students are prevented from raising their hands.

Summer Study Abroad

Gap Year and

College-Accredited Programs

Where there be Dragons

Rustic Pathways 15% Discount...

Rustic Pathways is offering our Early Bird Discount to all students who sign up prior to September 15^th. Students who take advantage of this will receive a 15% discount off the program costs for all the programs they join. In addition to this, Rustic Pathways is allowing students to cancel their programs and receive a FULL refund prior to March 1, 2011. This is a pretty fantastic deal, and we are all very excited about being able to offer this to our students. To see a full list of the Early Bird parameters, please visit the following web page:

http://www.rusticpathways.com/application/application.html

Good Luck to all of my students!  Have a super year. Apply what you have learned and walk into the next succession of your life:::Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced::: - James Baldwin.