Only half of recent college grads are employed full-time While Congress dukes it out over the federal interest rates on student loans, venture capitalist Peter Thiel has a solution fo... Read more
You’ve probably heard of Khan Academy, the online lessons that have been praised so highly. Wired recently put up an article on how it’s a complete game changer, and how children... Read more
Image via Wikipedia The winner was: Confucianism! An international study published last month looked at how students in 65 countries performed in math, science and reading. The winner was: C... Read more
Image via Wikipedia THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN I took part in a “qat chew” the other day at the home of a Yemeni official. Never done that before. Qat is the mildly hallucinogenic leaf drug that Yem... Read more
Bob Compton and I finally have something to agree about. The Washington, D.C.–based venture capitalist produced a provocative documentary, 2 Million Minutes, which tracked six students—two e... Read more