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Feed SubscriptionHow Green Dot Charter Turned Around L.A.’s Worst Schools
At L.A.'s worst high schools, gangs controlled the bathrooms and students regularly set hanging artwork on fire. Today, Green Dot Public Schools have dramatically increased graduation rates and college preparedness at a fraction of the cost.
Read More »Mastering The Uncomfortable Art Of Personal Branding
Whether interviewing for a job or making a presentation, weaving a strong personal narrative could be the one thing that keeps you on top. Here are a few tips to turning on your personal branding story without turning off your audience
Read More »Technology For Generation Next: Teens in Tech Labs
Why Microsoft is backing a technology incubator for teens, an idea that Daniel Brusilovsky came up with at 15 years old. Daniel Brusilovsky started his first business when he was 14.
Read More »Living Life Unplugged: EarTop Technologies
Babson College students Ketan Rahangdale and Jaiyu Ni are using the latest designs and cutting-edge technologies to create wireless headphones and devices. What happens when you take a deejay and cross him with a technical guru?
Read More »7 Hot Dorm Room Inventions
The 2012 class of our college start-ups list is on the cutting edge of products that will transform the way we live, from wireless headphones to a personalized electric motor bike. From wireless headphones to a personalized electric motor bike, the 2012 class of our annual America's Coolest College Start-ups list is on the cutting edge of product invention. Many of these upstarts were founded on the mission to give back to the world’s communities, take less from the earth’s resources, and have fun while doing it
Read More »Serving Greens for Green: The Little Salad Shop
Two Yale students used their college weight gain as motivation to start a thriving, health food restaurant. For Yale University students Jerry Choinski and Etkin Tekin, the dreaded “freshman 15” came two years late.
Read More »5 Tips to Turbocharge Your Business
The recession is ending. Will you be ready?
Read More »Proteus: How Radiolarians Saved Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel around Christmas 1860, when he was 26, the year after he returned from Italy. Ernst Haeckel had spent an unhappy year practicing medicine when his parents finally consented to pay for a year of scientific study and travel in Italy. It was 1859, and he was 25
Read More »7 Steps to Incredible Personal Productivity
Practical advice to turn an average workday into an incredibly productive day. Occasionally you need to go the extra mile .
Read More »Education’s Economics Of Scarcity
All across the United States, nay all around the world, the message about higher education is uniform: More people should go to university. President Obama has repeatedly stated on record that "by 2020 America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world." The Lumina Foundation is working to increase the proportion of Americans with degrees to 60% by 2025 .
Read More »No Joke. BustedTees Drives Holiday Sales
CollegeHumor co-founder Josh Abramson gets serious about his next venture: funny t-shirts. In 1999, when Josh Abramson was a sophomore in college, he co-founded the website CollegeHumor, a central portal where he and his friends could post funny pictures and videos they were circulating anyway. Five years later, looking to diversify revenue streams, Abramson started BustedTees, which sells t-shirts and other knickknacks that carry many of the funny slogans from CollegeHumor
Read More »Half Of Young Professionals Value Facebook Access, Smartphone Options Over Salary: Report
For a whole new generation of tech-savvy young professionals, having access to social media or the right smartphone in the workplace is at times more important than earning a higher salary.
Read More »Redefining ‘clean’
Aiming to take "clean" to a whole new level, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Maryland at College Park have teamed up to study how low-temperature plasmas can deactivate potentially dangerous biomolecules left behind by conventional sterilization methods.
Read More »How Analytics Drive My Web Strategy
FamiliesGo! founder Eileen P. Gunn writes about the underlying web analytics that steer her business decisions. I kind of love Google Analytics
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