John Hechinger & Suzanne Sataline: More U.S. cities are considering scrapping a longstanding tradition in American education, the elected school board, and opting to let mayors rule over the classroom. Dallas and Milwaukee are currently mulling mayoral control of the city's schools, and Detroit is u...

When you first see an Okapi your initial immediate thought is that someone left the barn door open and a horse met a zebra. Yet, the strange looking animal actually is more closely related to the giraffe than it is the zebra! With somewhat long necks and massive tongues, they are a breed unto their ...

Brain Braiker: I am not a digital native. I was born 1975 and didn't send my first e-mail until I was a sophomore in college. I spent my junior year abroad, where e-mail came in handy and Internet porn would have, if only I had known about it. Don't get me wrong, I'm no Luddite. These days I love th...

I guess to be a true paisley, this patter would have to have that amoebaform look to it. Or it could look like a Irish politician Ian Paisley, although it would be really hard to get the correct skin tone......

As two chairs made entirely of slaughtered gingham cats looks on, and in front of a crimson flokati, this mantle tableau tells of the Battle of Torkelson's Fjord, in which the Torkelson's laid a major Norse butt-whipping on their archenemies......

DBI (affectionally called the Douche Bag Index) is a number that rates your followers according to how they use Twitter. DBI ranges from 0 to 100 and higher numbers represent people who are more likely to be annoying twitter users.......

In "Memo to CFOs: Don't Trust HR", the author summarizes a presentation by Rutgers University's Richard Beatty at the CFO Rising conference (for those of you in the HR world, think of it as like SHRM, IHRIM, or the HR Technology Conference -- it is a major conference for CFOs).  It is a pretty ...

FROM THE COMFY CHAIR BY "JUAN VALDEZ" 18629 SR 2 , Monroe, Washington Ambidextrose:  Able to put sugar in coffee with either hand. - Author Unknown Monroe, Washington is a burgeoning burb about 15 miles due east of Everett, Wa which makes it about 45 northeast of Seattle give or take...

Andrew Rotherham: The President's speech today includes a lot of interesting tidbits, a shout-out for performance pay, a call to lift charter school caps, and even a very pro-Broad Prize signal embedded in the data section. I've been lukewarm on some of the stimulus, more on that later, but this is ...

Lessons from Vijayanagar Empire Indians would do well to leaf through the pages of history and see the state that our past disunity has always left us in. Starting from the early invasion of the Greeks, Huns, Turks, Afgans and finally the British, Indians have failed India repeatedly because of narr...