You Didn’t Build That. Your Luck Built It for You.
If you thought that Obama’s remark to small business owners that they didn’t build their businesses was kind of odd and unusual, or may be even a slip of the tongue, think twice. It is, in fact, a...
View ArticleThis Week’s “Links I Should Have Posted About, But Didn’t” | Larry Ferlazzo’s
I have a huge backlog of resources that I’ve been planning to post about in this blog but, just because of time constraints, have not gotten around to doing. Instead of letting that backlog grow...
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Conservative Iowa Woman Sues Law School Claiming They Didn’t Hire Her Because...
Wagner was a graduate of the school, working as a part-time instructor when, in 2006, she applied for a full-time position that ended up going to a lesser-qualified candidate. This is something she...
View Article“Over 200 million kids woke up this morning and didn’t go to school.” – John...
Room to Read is one of the top organizations supported by the Microsoft employee giving campaign, which just ended its 30 anniversary year with an ambitious goal to reach $ 1 billion in fundraising,...
View ArticleVoucher school history book: Hippies didn’t bathe, worshipped Satan
Thanks, Bruce! Lots of interesting stuff. That’s the sort of stuff that is being taught in those fundamentalist schools that popped up all over the South following passage of the civil rights acts of...
View ArticleThese Jurassic insects didn’t really suck dinosaur blood
By Stephanie Pappas A group of Jurassic insects thought to have been parasites of feathered dinosaurs were falsely accused, new research finds. Instead, the tiny creatures were aquatic flies, similar...
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This dinosaur’s huge body didn’t work the way we thought it did
Sauropods were some of the most successful dinosaurs that ever lived, partly thanks to the way they used their long necks to reach food. But a new study of ostrich necks reveals that what we thought we...
View ArticleStudy: Analysis of 225 Terrorism Cases Finds NSA Phone Record Collection...
The review also found “government officials” had “exaggerated the role of the NSA in the cases against David Coleman Headley and Najibullah Zazi, and the significance of the threat posed by a notional...
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8 Years of Studying French Didn’t Prepare Me for Living in Paris
By: Andrea Bouchaud I started studying French in the seventh grade. The beauty of the language mesmerized me so much that I continued to take French classes for the next 7 years. High school teachers...
View ArticleTeaching children that dinosaurs didn’t exist: how public schools fail their...
A Victorian primary school principal last week described lessons in his school as “rubbish,” “hollow and empty rhetoric” and with “no value whatsoever.” He closed down the special religious instruction...
View ArticleRDFRS: Teaching children that dinosaurs didn’t exist: how public schools fail...
A Victorian primary school principal last week described lessons in his school as “rubbish,” “hollow and empty rhetoric” and with “no value whatsoever.” He closed down the special religious instruction...
View ArticleToyota Didn’t Want Its Kids in Dallas ISD Schools. So What Do We Do
“The big elephant in the room is we don’t get Toyota in Dallas because of the school system,” Rawlings said. “We’ve talked to them and they want to be in Plano. And 7-Eleven left.” The mayor’s comments...
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Here Are Two Graphs Any Parent Of A College-Bound Kid Didn’t Want To See
Not according to these projections from J.P. Morgan Asset Management, which estimate that the total cost (tuition, room, board, fees) of a college education will continue to increase at a rate of 5%...
View ArticleGreat Leadership: What They Didn’t Teach You at Business School about...
Inventive negotiation borrows the best ideas from the Japanese, the Dutch, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, brain science, anthropology, and experimental economics. Rather than focusing on disputes or...
View ArticleCongress Didn’t Pay a Lot to Go to College: Today’s Students Shouldn’t Either
One of the oldest attack lines in politics is that a candidate or elected official is “out of touch” with the American people. The phrase, deployed often and by both parties, is often used to outline...
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