Archive for the 'Education' Category
Books are my favorite things, and librarians are some of my favorite people (which is why I hope to be joining their ranks soon…wish me luck!) So I seem to read quite a few articles like this one from today’s Boston Globe about how libraries are becoming more like Starbucks, and less like the more [...]
As the father of a sixth-grader who attends (and loves) a charter school, I’m in favor of school choice. But this article makes me think that maybe too much choice is not necessarily the best thing for these kids.
Home Schoolers Content to Take Children’s Lead – New York Times
As the number of children who are [...]
U.S. Copyright Office issues new rights – Yahoo! News
All told, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington approved six
exemptions, the most his Copyright Office has ever granted. For the
first time, the office exempted groups of users. Previously, Billington
took an all-or-nothing approach, making exemptions difficult to justify.
“I am very encouraged by the fact that the Copyright Office [...]
I love my iPod and use it all the time. I've tried to convince my wife and son that they each need one, but so far they have resisted the hypnotic pull of Cupertino's bestselling product.
According to this post from Engadget "iPod has new role as educational tool" Pearson Education plans to start making downloadable [...]
From today's Washington Post:
"It's odd to hear Vinton Cerf, regarded as one of the founding fathers of the Internet, to gush over ink-on-paper books.
The electronic pioneer and computer scientist, who now works as Google's chief Internet evangelist, is also a bibliophile who has a collection of about 10,000 hard-copy volumes lining shelves at his home [...]
Bush challenges hundreds of laws
President cites powers of his office
By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | April 30, 2006
WASHINGTON — President Bush has quietly claimed the
authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office,
asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by
Congress when it conflicts with his [...]
Money Magazine has released a survey of the 50 best jobs in America. As someone who is both a college professor and a lawyer, it was nice to see both jobs make the Top 50, but in terms of quality of life I would agree that being a college prof is the way to go. [...]
“You have no idea what they have here. I’m not the college-educated guy. I’m the street-educated guy. This has been my college.”
Mr.
Sabol, 49, is one of more than 63,000 entrepreneurs, investors and
small-business owners who have been trained at the business library to
search its thousands of print and electronic resources for real-life
business applications. The library is [...]
It is the time of year where you have to fill out your annual financial aid forms. The free website you want to use to help you through this process is:
http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/ (yes, the government does good things)
Any other site with FAFSA in the title is a fee-based service that YOU DON’T NEED!
Thanks to Betsy [...]
