18 posts categorized "Education"

January 09, 2009

If You Can Get Level Funded, Take It

In the bad old days of inflation, level funding a government program was a way of reducing the real dollars it had to spend without "cutting" – something politicians don't like to do. In deflationary times, level funding is actually an increase in spending power. However, the various constituenci More...

June 10, 2007

Being Globalization Ready

The generation of kids who are now in high school could be hurt by globalization.  More...

March 05, 2007

Paper Is Too Flat

Galeal riffs in NextBlitz on what schools might look like if classwork and homework were More...

January 21, 2007

What’s an E-state?

As regular readers of Fractals of Change and Vermonters already know, Governor Jim Douglas proposed More...

January 04, 2007

Vermont, The First E-State

Vermont Governor Jim Douglas in his inaugural address today in Montpelier: “I propose that by 2010, Vermont be the nation’s first true ‘e-state’ – the first state to provide universal cellular and broadband coverage everyw More...

February 01, 2006

Internal Protectionism

If you’re a fan of free trade and globalization as I am, then you should have liked the President’s renunciation of isolationism and protectionism in the State of the Union Address.  More...

December 20, 2005

Evolution’s Not Religion and Vice Versa

You can’t disprove Intelligent Design.  Don’t feel bad about that; no one else can either.  That’s why the “Theory of Intelligent Desi More...

February 24, 2005

The Search Bee

It  is obviously crucial that education adapt to change.  The search bee should replace the spelling bee.More...

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