Resources from the people I follow on Twitter, professional emails, and my own surfingAre we starting to see the impact of a college cost/debt bubble? It seems that students are thinking twice about taking on college debt as others wonder if a college education has any value. When you couple this with tons of free online courses we may be seeing the beginning of a seismic shift. Here […]
Read entire post...Is College Worth It Issue? Some Think Not.
May 15th, 2012Cool Stuff Kids Do Issue
May 9th, 2012I’m a sucker for stories about how students do amazing things. Here we have one has become a go to expert in his field, one who takes on the look of perfect women in magazines, and another college dropout making a bundle. There are more and they are all amazing in their own way. Tweets […]
Read entire post...CohortTracker™ – Essential Software
April 28th, 2012CohortTracker™ is a web-based application that helps schools keep track of the students in each cohort as they proceed towards graduation with special attention for those at risk of not graduating in four years. This software should be part of any student management system, but it generally isn’t. NCLB requires high schools to reach four-year […]
Read entire post...Quiet: The Power of Introverts In a World That Can’t Stop Talking
April 19th, 2012
QUIET: The Power of Introverts In a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain (© 2012, Crown Publishers: New York, NY) tells the story of how being introverted has its advantages and how the extrovert ideal is overrated. Learn how forced collaboration can stand in the way of innovation, and how the leadership potential of introverts is often overlooked.
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