By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World “Rising student-loan debt is an economic emergency. Forty million people are dealing with $1.2 trillion in outstanding student...
Category - Education
Simplifying Childhood May Protect Against Mental Health Issues
By Tracy Gillett Guest writer for Wake Up World When my Dad was growing up he had one jumper each winter. One. Total. He remembers how vigilantly he cared for his jumper. If the elbows got holes in...
Those Who Refuse To Unlearn, Deschool and Deprogram Will Be This Generation’s Illiterate
By Marco Torres Guest writer for Wake Up World The general definitions and terminology for illiteracy vary depending on their orientation to specific subject areas. Most people assume illiteracy...
If You Want to Accelerate Brain Development in Children, Teach Them Music
By Joe Battaglia Guest writer for Wake Up World Music, the universal language of mood, emotion and desire, connects with us through a wide variety of neural systems. We now know from controlled...
The School System: The Incarceration of Children
14th July 2016 By Razi Berry Guest writer for Wake Up World CAFOs, also known as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, are confined feedlots in which animals raised for food products are kept in...
America’s Dirty Laundry: The Ongoing Genocide of the American Indian
By Irwin Ozborne Contributing writer for Wake Up World “The love of possessions is a disease with them [Americans]. They take tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich who rule...
Collective Awareness and Spiritual Evolution – Why a Rewrite of History is Needed
15th June 2016 By Peter Van Els Guest writer for Wake Up World An evolved future for mankind will only be possible if wise men would rewrite history, based upon newfound truths. Otherwise...
How This Simple Educational Model Can Change the World
By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World “In the modern age of production and consumption, in the age of money and power, the meaning of education has become distorted...
Why Education Must Come Back to Nature
By Will Stanton Guest writer for Wake Up World “Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can’t expect them to help protect...
Common Core: Surveillance, Standardization, and the Sexualization of Children
By Makia Freeman Contributing writer for Wake Up World Common Core is the set of educational standards for American children which first came onto the scene in 2009, after Obama took...
Breaking the Spell of Our Cultural Imprisonment
By Christina Lavers Contributing Writer for Wake Up World What would the world look like if instead of living our lives according to how we are told we ‘should’ be, we were all...
Leave a Better Generation for a Better World
By Purnima Ramakrishnan Guest Writer for Wake Up World “It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human...