Obama Gets Economic Tour Underway
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George Bush called it the Ownership Society, but it’s little more than a worn dogma that says we should give more to those at the top and hope that their good fortune trickles down to the hardworking many. For eight long years, our President sacrificed investments in health care, and education, and energy, and infrastructure [...]
Wfu Provost Emeritus Honored
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David Brown, provost emeritus at Wake Forest University, was honored by computer maker Lenovo at ThinkTank 2008, an educational conference held at the campus Tuesday.
Lenovo, which is based in China and has executive offices in Morrisville and a distribution center in Whitsett, gave Brown its Education Lifetime Achievement award. The company cited Brown’s decade-long pursuit [...]
Do We Really Need School Boards
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TROUBLE WAS predictable when, three years into their jobs, members of the Strait regional school board were ordered to write their own directive on ethics, responsibilities and how to behave with common courtesy.
Are these the folks we want running the system that teaches our children?
Over the weekend, Education Minister Karen Casey decided the answer to [...]
Mesa Police Chief: Education Key To Preventing Crime
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George Gascón, who was named chief of the Mesa Police Department in August 2006, was the guest last week on aztalk Live Talk Wednesday.
Gascón oversees an agency of more than 1,400 employees that covers Mesa’s 133 square miles.
Gascón’s law enforcement career began in 1978 as an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department.
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“I left [...]
Mba Students Appear Remarkably Sanguine In The Face Of A Difficult Job Market.
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There should be nothing more disheartening for an MBA student than, after all that work, graduating into an economic downturn. Particularly when the organisations suffering the biggest economic woes are prime recruiters of MBAs: financial services and banks. But, while no one doubts that the prospects for the economy and job market have worsened, compared [...]
Deer Park: School Voters Guide 2008
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The district is proposing a budget of $94,471,150 for 2008-09, an increase of 4.83 percent over the current budget of $90,115,985.
The proposed tax levy would be 60,336,873, a 0.41 percent decrease from the current tax levy of $60,587,001.
School taxes on the average single-family house assessed at $4,000 would decrease from $6,659 to $6,632, a decrease [...]
Seeking A Hubbie Get A Degree
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Women with degrees are more likely to marry than their less educated sisters, in a dramatic reversal of an established pattern, new analysis of the 2006 Austarlian census shows.
Those who have been to university are now the ones with the best chance of finding a husband, leading some to worry that marriage is becoming the [...]
Hamline Launches Business School Education Jobs
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Minnesota’s oldest liberal arts institution is launching a business school.
St. Paul-based Hamline University’s move to offer undergraduate business degrees, expand an existing graduate business program and open a St. Louis Park site at Interstate 394 and Minnesota Highway 100 stokes the competition in the local b-school market. It also bodes well for Hamline’s bottom line, [...]
Goldman Sachs To Grow 10,000 Women Entrepreneurs
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Women development and involvement in entreprenurial activities have continued to elicit interest in developed and developing emerging economies. Many conferences and initiatives have been held globally to muster support and increase awareness for this cause.
Education Jobs In line with this global concern, the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSEGS) has rolled out its 10,000 Women Initiative, [...]
Japans “perfect” lover celebrates 1000th birthday
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KYOTO, Japan (Reuters) - A serial seducer who enchants aristocratic women with poems on scented paper and gifts of luxurious kimono, Genji turns 1000 this year, his appeal to readers undiminished.
The Casanova hero of one of Japan’s earliest novels, which was recognized as a masterpiece not long after it was written by an obscure lady [...]
