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High School and Employment Markets - Working with Institutions
This third and final entry the connection between employment and the secondary school curriculum will discuss curriculum areas where...
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High School and Employment Markets - Working with Objects
The last entry will discuss curriculum areas where interpersonal communication is most important: Foreign Languages, English Language...
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High School and Employment Markets - Working with People
The next three entries will connect the eight core subject areas to the job market as defined by the US Labor Department’s Occupational...
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Establishing an Occupational Identity
In the last posting, I described materials that students should learn in high school to be prepared to function as a full adult. This...
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Why are these postings so elaborate?
The earlier postings may seem elaborate with much complex material. This is material that is intended to be part of class material for...
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Problem Solving and Decision Making in Different Spheres
Spheres are groups of people that interact with each other. Each of us can be a member of many spheres. The analytic decision making...
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Decision Making – An Analytical Model
People can experience problems as simple as buying a new pair of shows or as complex as putting a man on the moon. Each problem can...
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Decision Making and Identity Formation
We make many large and small decisions in our personal lives. The following are some of the more important decisions that persons age 14...
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Should We Expand the Freedom of People Age 14 to 18?
As discussed above, autonomy and freedom to make personal decisions leads to happiness and paternalism and limitations on decision making...
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Decision Making – Coercion and Autonomy
In the last postings we discussed persuasion, deception, trust, and critical thinking in decision making. In this posting we will...
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Examples of Bad Decisions that Hurt People Physically
We normally think of violent crimes like murder, rape, assault and robbery as crimes of passion or attempts at coercion. We can think of...
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Examples of Bad Decisions that Hurt People Financially
Examples of Bad Decisions that Hurt People Financially Earlier postings were based on large samples like the World Happiness Report or...
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Introduction to Decision Making - Persuasion
In this posting, we will introduce decision making and problem solving. This is the third goal of high schools that I suggested in the...
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Time Use Data and the American High School
In earlier posts, I made some suggestions on re-imagining the American High School based on the findings of the World Happiness Report. ...
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The Human Life Cycle in America - Changes Across Time
Another way of learning is to identify information across time. This can show trends that may suggest a forecast of the future. ...
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Events in the Lives of People Age 15 to 35 - International Comparisons
In the United States, people attend higher education, get jobs, and form families as they age from 15 to 35. They also have more leisure...
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Introduction to the Human Life Cycle - Events in the life of People from Age 15 to Age 35
We will continue to explore happiness and misery but we will also take a look at the human life cycle which is our the second recommended...
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Time Use, Happiness, and High School
In prior postings, I have established that the happiness and misery of a country is connected to health, income and wealth, and...
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Institutional Ethics and High School
Multinational surveys of happiness show that the average happiness in a nation is determined by health, income, and the strength and...
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Introduction to Happiness, Misery, and the Good Life
In the last blog, I defined four goals of high schools that could prepare students for life after age 18.. One was to understand...
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