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Republican presidential candidates can't wait to cut the federal budget. But for small businesses, big government isn't just a big pain -- it's a big client, too. In the wake of the Iowa caucuses, only one character is likely to be less popular than President Obama: Big Government itself
Read More »Cut the Budget? Not So Fast
Republican presidential candidates can't wait to cut the federal budget. But for small businesses, big government isn't just a big pain -- it's a big client, too. In the wake of the Iowa caucuses, only one character is likely to be less popular than President Obama: Big Government itself.
Read More »Want To Change Tomorrow’s Workforce?
Entrepreneurship training is what teaches essential workforce skills, and enables class mobility.
Read More »How to Get an MIT Education for Peanuts
It takes time to learn all the skills needed to be a successful founder, but there are low-cost shortcuts available, including MIT's new online certificate program.
Read More »Instead Of Whining About The Skills Gap, Use Training To Close It
It is a tragic irony that there are over 3 million open jobs in the U.S. economy today, while over 14 million Americans remain unemployed.
Read More »The Library Treasure Hunt
More adventures in gamifying higher education. One challenge facing journalism educators in this age of instant-access Internet is getting students to leave the warm glow of their computer screens to conduct primary source research
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Read More »Rick Perry’s Debate Gaffe And What It Teaches Us About Presentation Skills (Or Lack Thereof)
I’m a huge advocate of the "Rule of Three." This presentation technique holds that a speaker can more powerfully express three items or messages than any other number of items.
Read More »Young Entrepreneurs Get Break
A new White House initiative hopes to alleviate the pressure student debt places on recent grads.
Read More »The Next Steve Jobs Will be Asian
As Washington maneuvers on skilled immigration reform, the United States is loosing its near-monopoly on entrepreneurship by forcing its educated Indian and Chinese immigrants to return home.
Read More »Pearson, Blackboard, And Education’s New "Openwashing"
Open educational resources--textbooks, curricula, video lectures and more that are released, usually online, under Creative Commons license for free sharing and reuse--have been at the forefront of the movement for higher education innovation. They're a key part of the Obama administration's national education technology plan ; in January, the Department of Ed created a $2 billion grant program to fund open community college textbooks and other materials.
Read More »Stumbling Up The Ladder: Ad Agencies Neglect Their Brightest Prospects
Imagine that you’re a young writer working for a big ad agency. You go into a client meeting.
Read More »Silicon Valley’s New Hiring Strategy
In Silicon Valley, some dare to ask: Why hire a PhD, when a self-taught kid is just as good? Adam Passey, 28 Medford, Oregon Former VP of information and technology at a marketing agency HIRED BY IGN "I had one job for 10 years, and a lot of the systems I worked on were proprietary, so I couldn't show them as examples of my work
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