Yesterday was my daughters’ last day of school. In their honor, here’s a trio of education factoids that just came over the transom from the U.S. Census Bureau. 100%: Percentage of public schools with Internet access (Source, Table 246) 1.1 million: Number of U.S. students who are home-schooled. (Source, table 227) 56%: Percentage of U.S. […]
Some say America is losing its IT edge and ought to look northward for guidance. As this IT World story puts it: “American schools would do well to emulate Canadian universities such as McGill and Waterloo, which, without a doubt, are North America’s leading source of top IT talent,” said [IT guru Thornton] May. Apart
Back in March, Wyatt Jackson, a Boston-based entrepreneur and hip-hop artist, wrote and performed a rap song about A Whole New Mind. Now he has another project, this one far more worthy. He and three other Boston rappers have formed 4Peace, a group that advocates against violence using the power of hip-hop. You can read
Over at Swirling Planet Times, Bart Gottschalk has begun publising his “gratitude-a-day.”
You can’t walk through a software company in India without hearing those four words. Now comes further evidence that India won’t be content to do routine work for the rest of the world. IIT Madras is establishing a “centre of excellence in engineering design with a science-meets-aesthetics curriculum,” The Hindu reports. The center “aims to
In an interesting and provocative Fortune column, Matt Miller floats a theory that the next big class battle will pit the “lower upper class” against the “ultrarich” — lawyers, doctors, and their ilk versus gazillionaire hedge fund types, CEOs, and their ilk. Matt quotes pollster Doug Schoen who says, “If you look at the lower
Earlier today the US population hit 300 million. In honor of this demographic milestone, the US Census Bureau has put together a great set of data comparing the country today, in 1967 (when the population hit 200 million), and in 1915 (when the population reached 100 million.) Some of my favorites: Percentage of the population,
A Whole New Mind has its own Wikipedia entry. In fact, it’s had one since June. Of course, I didn’t know until this weekend when, er, my ten-year-old daughter showed me. Cool.
Kevin Dugan, pr impresario and top-notch blogger, alerted me to this Influx Insights piece. It’s a great example of the growing importance of story as a product differentiator. The tale in brief is this: Seven years ago, Diane St. Clair didn’t know boo about making butter. But she wanted to learn so she taught herself
. . without leaving your computer. Go to jacksonpollock.org. (HT: Jeff O’Brien)
