GlobalShift

Today, March 8, 2010, is International Women’s Day and we have a salute to an amazing woman who could have ended up a statistic but instead ended up a star. She is called Precious and her story is so difficult to watch you want to turn away from the screen and yet so compelling you [...]

Creativity is something we’d all like to have. The ability to see not just “what is”, but “what could be”. Enviable is the ability of finding innovative solutions to both personal and global problems, and all the successes that may accompany such breakthroughs. While it’s true that some aspect of creativity is genetic (in the [...]

Imagine being called into the high school assistant principal’s office on an ordinary school day, where you’re chastised for using illegal drugs. You’ve never done drugs before, but when you ask why you’re being accused, you’re shown a webcam photo of you eating Mike and Ikes at home. Maybe they confused the Mike and Ikes [...]

A recent proposal by Utah Republican State Senator Chris Buttars has gotten a lot of press and upset many educators and has excited some students. Buttars first proposed that the State of Utah eliminate senior year of high school but later changed that to an optional senior year for students that had already finished their credits. He says this plan could save the state 60 million dollars a year.

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece describing how some busybody parents got their undergarments in a tangle when they discovered that the term “oral sex” was listed in the dictionary in classrooms of 4th graders on up.

I’ve always had a lot of bitterness towards abstinence only sex-education. Coming from a very conservative, Christian town, I’ve seen a lot of teenage pregnancies that I believe could have been prevented by some proper contraceptive education. My friends and I grew up being told premarital sex was a sin and that was all we [...]

A secretary originally hired for her bilingual skills is sacked by her school district for violating their “No-Spanish” rule. She was “caught” conversing with non-English speaking parents on multiple cases. And they say we have free speech!

College students are making a difference every day. Young Visionaries is looking to reward several such activists.

Megan Eaves of StudentsInEurope.com shares her thoughts with us in regard to the culture shock that can hit when American students spend an extended amount of time in a foreign country.
9 Tips for Overcoming Culture Shock
When I was studying abroad, I knew several other students that had so much trouble with culture shock that they [...]

Inspired by JFK’s ambition to send Americans to the moon in 1969, famed Ford executive Lee Iacocca gave an exalted mandate to his team of engineers. Facing low-cost, high-mileage foreign competition for the first time, Ford set a specific target: design a new automobile that weighs less than 2,000 pounds and sold for under $2,000. [...]