I wish I were smart enough to come up with a list like this. The good news is my friends at TP are smart enough. From TP: Next week, “change is coming to America,� as President George W. Bush wraps up his tenure as one of the worst American presidents ever. He wasn’t able to accomplish such a...

RTFA: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/15/0812… But Deutschlander sees his role as keeping the gate as wide open as possible: to find ten new financial advisers, he’s willing to interview a thousand people. The equivalent of that approach, in the N.F.L., would be for a team to ...

Harry Brighouse expounds on the novel argument that maybe what we’ve dubbeed “grade inflation” is really a legitimate response to increased quality of work from the students rather than a lowering of standards on the part of the professors. Could the students really be more talente...

This is weird . I’ll have to do more research on this but here’s what I have found. Local News account: From AP: A South Texas grand jury has indicted Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on state charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners in Wil...

This is the first of a four-part series on blogging and tenure. Each installment covers a different portion of the tenure process, from starting and establishing the tone of your blog, up to documenting your blog for your tenure dossier. I don't guarantee anything, and I certainly don't have all the...

MIDDLE ISLAND, N.Y. -- Few people know better than school superintendent Allan Gerstenlauer that disciplining a tenured teacher can be a long and expensive process....

Post from Leadership Turn Image credit: Ken Meador When I wrote about Ken Meador, CEO of TWR Lightening for my other blog I called him to clarify a few things. Ken is one of those great executives who actually return their voice mail and he and I had a great time talking—it’s always fun talk...

Hm... so... good day so far, I'd have to say. :) I've done just about all of my homework, and I actually understood it all. Mouss says my "French is perfect." :D This is very good, seeing as I'm going to be in France this winter... :) I'm excited, though, even though it's scary to think of...