Stu Taylor on Business – Interview with Charles Jett on February 18, 2015
This morning I had the pleasure of visiting with Stu Taylor on his program, Stu Taylor on Business. Check it out.
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Read More…Talent: America’s Most Challenging Cybersecurity Threat
Gary Beach writes in the Wall Street Journal (CIO Journal) about the risk this nation faces as a result of current and future shortcomings in skills. The article has the title, “Talent: America’s Most Challenging Cybersecurity Threat.” The skills he refers to are cyber skills – and that the US is not keeping pace with […]
Read More…Utah’s Focus On The Common Core Seems Reasonable
Despite Utah being a solidly conservative state – most conservatives seem to be against the Common Core – the state’s governor, Gary Herbert, is taking a deliberate and fair look at the Common Core standards for statewide adoption. Obviously the main concerns are Federal involvement and the level of quality of the content standards. Morgan […]
Read More…Free Community College? Do You Want Education or Remediation?
Karen Nussle, Executive Director of the Collaborative for Student Success, wrote an excellent letter to the editor of the Miami Hearld titled “The High Cost of Remediation” about the President’s proposal to provide free community college tuition. Her letter, with which I agree, points out that while the idea is well-intentioned, in effect, it would pay […]
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