Interesting article about a police officer who sued the police department because to people were promoted based on bogus degrees. He is getting a retroactive raise, his legal expenses covered, and will be retiring effective March 11th.
Kolakowski applied in 2003 for a promotion to the newly created position of deputy chief. The borough ultimately […]
Do you know how to make African American’s perform poorly on a test? Just make the first question “What is your race?”
Now I realize that the above statement sounds horrible and it is terribly politically incorrect, but it is the actual results of the experiment below. It suggests that we may be hindering […]
KGWN - Cheyenne Police Chief Got Degree from Diploma Mill
The city of Cheyenne has paid for the city’s police chief to earn a masters degree from a suspected diploma mill.
Police Chief Bob Fecht got the degree from Lacrosse University in Mississippi.
I think the big question would be whether or not he got a raise for […]
You can Search Harvard’s museum collections. They have scanned and photographed over 80,000 works of art that you can view online. Some of the scans are at very high resolution. If you play around with the URL you can get it to give you images up to 3000 pixels accross.
I’d […]
An article
by the guardian talks about how email can become adictive and actually lower your IQ like drugs.
The distractions of constant emails, text and phone messages are a greater threat to IQ and concentration than taking cannabis, according to a survey of befuddled volunteers.
Doziness, lethargy and an increasing inability to focus reached “startling” levels in […]
If you are looking at getting a degree through Harvard’s Extension school make sure you check out the residency requirement for your program. The ALM in IT degree requires you to spend one semester on campus. The summer session counts as a semester and it is only 8 weeks long.
Although some ALM in […]
The United States Census has some interesting facts on the education rates of each state. The chart below shows the percentage of adults over 25 years of age who have at least a bachelors degree. The top position goes to the District of Columbia, but since it is such a small area, it […]
Capella announced that it is going to go public. Capella has always looked like an interesting university. They are a commercial enterprise and based on their requirements it seems that they probably rank a little higher academically than University of Phoenix.
“Capella Education Co. of Minneapolis, one of the few private education firms to […]
Last year Duke gave iPods to all of it’s incoming freshmen. An article came out today that gives a small overview of the program. It sounds like the iPod program wasn’t really studied. They basically just gave everyone iPods to see what would happen. The article has quotes from teachers saying […]
While taking classes through Harvard’s Extension school, I ran across a very helpful product from Enounce. They make a plug in that gives you variable speed control of Real Media streams. This means you can play lecture videos back faster or slower than they were originally recorded.
Enounce uses some special technology […]
Distance education and on-line learning opportunities are starting to show up at most universities and colleges. Here are a few things to consider when looking into taking classes over the Internet. I’m going to break this into two categories. The first covers things that you need to know about yourself, the second […]
The Sakai Project is an opensource effort to create a content management solution specifically for schools. The web based software allows instructors to create classes and schedules for those classes. Students can sign up for multiple classes. Their individual schedules show the information from all classes in which they are registered.
Individual classes […]
In my experience the people who are most successful always take time to learn and read. Modern society makes this very difficult. According to the 2003 US Census, the average amount of time spent driving one way to work is 24 minutes each day. That means the average person spends 48 minutes […]