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The Passport is the New Diploma

Posted by Keith Bellows in Family Time on February 7, 2013
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Mackenzie drawing iguanas in her journal. (Photograph by Keith Bellows)

My daughter Mackenzie just turned 7. At her birthday party at the Playseum, she stood in front of a child’s version of a world map—no country names, just illustrations of objects like whales and palm trees and pandas. I watched, astonished, as she pointed out dozens of places—Paris, Antarctica, China, Australia. Then it dawned on…