21st Century Skills

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  • What No One Ever Tells You About Two-Year Degrees

    By Liz Weston, Reuters

    Steven Polasck of Corpus Christi, Texas, liked math and science in high school. He considered attending a four-year college but ultimately decided to use his strengths to get a two-year degree in...

  • 4 Proven Ways Mindfulness Can Help You at Work

    By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

    The practice of mindful awareness has come out of the yoga studio and moved into the workplace – from cubicle city to the c–suite - with surprising speed. Executives at Ford, General Mills, Goldman...

  • 5 Reasons You’ll Return to Work After You Retire

    By Kathryn Tuggle, MainStreet

    Motivated, driven people who love their work — and paycheck — may find themselves back at a desk before they can make it to the golf course. According to a survey by CareerBuilder, 60% of workers age...

  • The New Corporate Success Strategy: Face Time

    By Bill McDermott, CNBC

    I have long believed in the power of pageantry to inform and inspire. Even in our digital age, bringing people together, in person, is essential to building great organizations. I say this as the CEO...

  • The Surprising New Realities of Today’s Older Americans

    By Warren Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov, The Conversation

    In 1985, American Richard Bass accomplished an amazing feat. He had set for himself the task of climbing the world’s highest mountains in all seven continents. In that year, at age 55, he completed...

  • For $14,500, Your Kid Can Jet to College

    By Arjun Kharpal, CNBC

    Parents dropping their kids to college in a car stuffed with blankets and tinned food is a common sight on the streets of university towns across the world. But one company is attempting to put the...

  • How Money Stands Between Parents and College Kids

    By Chris Taylor, Reuters

    It is an American rite of passage. Little Johnny finally grows up, goes off to college, and starts handling money on his own. He probably spends a little too much, and racks up some debt. Does Johnny...

  • Type Like Hemingway, Courtesy of Tom Hanks

    By Natasha Baker, Reuters

    A new app for the iPad aims to recreate the nostalgic sense of typing on a manual typewriter, but ramped up to meet the demands of digital-age word processing. The brainchild of Oscar-winning actor...

  • Pot and Ice Buckets Are New Business School Props

    By Michelle Fox, CNBC

    From legal marijuana to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, professors at business schools across the country are reaching for real-life examples to teach old-school business practices in an effort to...

  • Another Look at the STEM ‘Crisis’ in America

    By Peter Sacks, Minding the Campus

    Hardly a day goes by that policymakers, educational leaders and corporate executives don’t lament the “STEM crisis,” the alleged shortage of American workers trained in science, technology,...