Sep 30, 2006
In a recent national poll released today, the American public said public education is the number one issue local leaders should address, edging out health care, the economy and fears of terrorism at the local level. I don’t think this is surprise to most of us! The...
Sep 18, 2006
Is anyone else having deja’vu with all the recent companies getting money for ideas that have been done before and failed. Additionally when I look at the companies raising 7.5 million dollars for simple/done ideas with no business model. Here’s one recent...
Sep 18, 2006
Sun Spotlights More Accessible Education Resources with Open Source Solaris™ Operating System, Discussion Focuses on Collaboration and Community Sun Microsystems, Inc. challenged leaders to rethink traditional education models. On the Massachusetts Institute of...
Sep 13, 2006
Its not a new idea but it is coming of age. Recently I read an article about a company who will be tutoring you kids—and this takes the idea of outsourcing to an entirely different level. A company called TutorVista has gained business with US schools to tutor rural...
Sep 8, 2006
Degrees of Opportunity, a new national study of the attitudes of adult Americans toward continuing their education, indicates that more than half of American adults age 25 to 60 would like to pursue additional education—the equivalent of more than 70 million adult...