8 Economic Indicators — Are Red or Blue States Better?
In comparing the quality of life between Red vs Blue states, I’ll be grouping all 23 indicators into 4 main categories: 4 Crimes Indicators, 4 Social Indicators, 7 Health Indicators […]
Tag Archives: education
Plight of the Village Child in Education
By Alhassan Baako Humanist Service Corps Volunteer In my opinion, life without formal education is meaningless. Growing up as a child, my immediate guidance counselors were my parents and the various classroom […]
A Most Unlikely Story
By Warren Alan Tidwell Humanist Service Corps Volunteer The road to Bolni is as bad a road as I’ve been on in Ghana. It takes thirty minutes to reach the village once […]
Life’s Challenges and Why They’re Important
By Lukeman Adams Humanist Service Corps Volunteer In the 1996 when electricity was scarce in northern Ghana and only two years old in my hometown (Bole), lanterns were the major source of […]
Songtaba: Empowering Girls to Insist on Their Own Education
By Wendy Webber The Humanist Service Corps is partnered with Songtaba, a local organization committed to the realization of the aspirations and rights of women and children in the northern […]
Camp Quest and Consent Education
Camp Quest is a wonderful organization and if you haven’t heard of it, you should look it up! Basically, it’s a week-long summer camp where you do all the typical […]
“Oh, You Do Know My Language”: Finding the Poetry in Another Tongue
By Christian Hayden Humanist Service Corps Volunteer I met a little boy that resembled my features Nappy afro, gap in his smile…. He looked at me and said, “Kendrick you do know […]
It’s Time to Revamp K-12 Education with Vouchers
Public education is important—this much is beyond dispute. But besides that one understatement, everything else is fair game. As a core cog in American life, as a political and ideological […]
Killing Witchcraft with Kindness
By Conor Robinson Humanist Service Corps Program Coordinator From July 2013 – June 2014, I oversaw Pathfinders Project, a yearlong international service trip sponsored by Foundation Beyond Belief as the […]
Awakeners & Liberators: Kate Bolick’s Nietzschean Education
In her late 2011 Atlantic cover story “All the Single Ladies,” Kate Bolick makes the case to stop treating unmarried (and often professional, highly educated) women as anomalies or deviants—not […]
Applied Sentience 