Education and Black Boys
New York University Professor Pedro Noguera discusses his recent book “The Trouble with Black Boys … And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education”
New York University Professor Pedro Noguera discusses his recent book “The Trouble with Black Boys … And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education”
Chris Kelly, a writer for Bill Maher’s TV show, uses his column at Huffington Post today to take aim at an online petition drive surrounding the F-22 Raptor fighter jet program. He laments the fact that he has seen ads for this petition on a variety of conservative web sites, and he skewers the merits…
Most of us have signed up for LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network, and many of us use it occasionally, but we haven’t really figured out how to get the most of it. So I asked a longtime friend and former colleague, Jeff Taylor, to share his advice. Jeff, a Senior Vice President at Fleishman-Hillard Government…
Those of us who seem to be living at the cutting edge of technology often don’t take enough time to reflect on how quickly things change. The point was driven home for me recently when my grandfather celebrated his 100th birthday and gave a speech about his life growing up a century ago. It’s worth…
You simply must read this laugh out loud funny list of crazy patents that have actually been awarded by the USPTO. I picked up on it from a post by Seth Levine where he reports on (potentially) good news about pending changes in the way patents are handled. We can only hope. My favorites from…
What a difference a day makes. Yesterday, I had JetBlue up against the ropes. Like a prize fighter, under the leadership of David Neeleman, they are fighting their way back to the center of the ring. Brad Feld point early in the day to a New York Times article: In this article, Neeleman shows he…
Hitwise reports that for the first time Google Blogsearch has generated more pages views in a week than Technorati. So Technorati is now the second place blog search web site, right? Maybe, maybe not. Mike Arrington over at TechCrunch points out that the comScore numbers disagree. Unfortunately, the comScore numbers appear to be highly erratic…