The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sets the U.S.

14 serious childhood diseases.

increased the minimum wage to $300 per hour

It’s elementary, my dear Senator Sanders – elementary economics.

The unemployment rate for black teenage males is in excess of 30%.

ut the entry-level or unskilled worker will lose his job to a machine or to labor that comes from the customer.

As the price of labor goes up, producers will have an incentive to use machines to replace labor.

Bernie Sanders and those who support a minimum wage

Librarians have often been forced to become software development managers, just by the nature of modern work in the field.

aren’t equivalent writing ‘boot camps’

but ensuring a solid exposure to ‘real’ coding is just as important for them.

But there’s a fundamental disconnect in the way we approach teaching both technology and the humanities

but I write research papers, give presentations and analyze strategies and processes

I’ve seen some young engineers struggle with just this aspect of the field 

humanities

Being able to contextualize and tell a story with that data, to multiple audiences, is equally critical.

a basic understanding of both technology and the liberal arts gives you adaptability; fluency in both can give you career superpowers

equally-introverted historians

technical background is a different sort of challenge.

and know that it’s hard work, not magic

you can absolutely succeed in a technical role with a humanities or liberal arts background, as long as you’ve also got the technical chops

because she was non-technical

Both sets of skills are necessary in the modern workplace 

studying the arts or humanities is a waste of tim

‘need’ a STEM degree

new trend of tech companies hiring newly-minted holders of liberal arts degrees.

healthy relationship with all technology,

We do not face a simple choice of digital or analog. That is the false logic of the binary code that computers are programmed with, which ignores the complexity of life in the real world.

but learning happens best when we build upon the relationships between students, teachers and their peers.

but has outperformed digital learning experiments

encouraging human interaction

feeling of belonging.

real places where we live.

the walled garden of analog saves both time and inspires creativity.

powerful efficiency in that simplicity

unparalleled with anything delivered through a screen

But younger consumers who never owned a turntable and have few memories of life before the internet drive most of the current interest in analog

Vinyl records have witnessed a decade-long boom in popularity (more than 200,000 newly pressed records are sold each week in the United States)

Nearly half of millennials worry about the negative effects of social media on their mental and physical health, according to the American Psychiatric Association.

Facebook and Twitter are eroding our democratic institutions