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Tag Archives: education

8 Economic Indicators — Are Red or Blue States Better?

July 30, 2020by Paul Chiariello 7 Comments

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 […]

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Politics & Culture

Plight of the Village Child in Education

January 24, 2017by Humanist Service Corps 2 Comments

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 […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Politics & Culture

A Most Unlikely Story

December 30, 2016by Humanist Service Corps 2 Comments

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 […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Politics & Culture

Life’s Challenges and Why They’re Important

November 2, 2016by Humanist Service Corps Leave a comment

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 […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Memoirs & Journeys

Songtaba: Empowering Girls to Insist on Their Own Education

December 9, 2015by Humanist Service Corps 1 Comment

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 […]

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Camp Quest and Consent Education

October 2, 2015by Matthew Facciani 2 Comments

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 […]

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Ethics & Philosophy

“Oh, You Do Know My Language”: Finding the Poetry in Another Tongue

September 29, 2015by Humanist Service Corps 2 Comments

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 […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Memoirs & Journeys

It’s Time to Revamp K-12 Education with Vouchers

August 13, 2015by Leo Kozachkov Leave a comment

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 […]

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Politics & Culture

Killing Witchcraft with Kindness

August 7, 2015by Humanist Service Corps 1 Comment

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 […]

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Ethics & Philosophy, Humanist Service Corp Blog, Politics & Culture, Religion & Secularism

Awakeners & Liberators: Kate Bolick’s Nietzschean Education

June 29, 2015by Kris Miranda 4 Comments

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 […]

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