Bob CollinsIf you’re looking for some easy money, be a search firm.
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Education
Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison is renewing the debate after vowing on Saturday to force his six- and eight-year-old sons to send back trophies they received for participating in school athletics. Read more →
You know who the daily heroes are in this country who never get recognition? School bus drivers.
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A day after PBS announced it would trim Sesame Street to a half hour, Sesame Workshop and HBO delivered a bombshell today — Sesame Street will move to HBO. Read more →
The Atlantic is sure to roil the educational waters today with its signature article claiming that today’s college students are engaged in a war on ideas and words they don’t like. Read more →
I’m not embarrassed by Teague because he brought shame to a university I embrace, or a state I love. I’m embarrassed because I’m a man.
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Reading through the texts that recently “resigned” University of Minnesota athletics director Teague sent to a woman at a university event revealed that despite what he said when reading a statement last Friday morning, alcohol isn’t his main problem — character is.
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That there’s at least a little expression of shame surrounding the University of Minnesota athletics department today can be described like this: ‘It’s a good start.’
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It’s going to cost high schools that send athletes to state tournaments in Minnesota now.
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The action came despite a plea from former Notre Dame basketball coach ‘Digger’ Phelps, who showed up at a meeting this week to reinforce what he wrote in an op-ed last week. Read more →
It rather figures that a whimsical ‘robot’ that captured the delight of motorists around the world couldn’t last two weeks in the United States. Read more →
A week or so ago, a city official in a Massachusetts community got in big trouble for painting crosswalks where the city had neglected to keep them up.
Here’s hoping Grand Forks has a better view of Jeff Borys contribution to the pedestrian world. Read more →
The Grand Forks Herald is taking a stand for consideration of ‘Roughriders’ as a new nickname for the University of North Dakota. Read more →
There’s a particular violation when teachers run a scam. Read more →
It was a good run for Joseph Rosenfeld of Virginia, who got some fame this week for discovering an error in the Golden Ratio at Boston’s Museum of Science. Rosenfeld noticed the apparent mistake right away. “I immediately thought it was incorrect, but I still double-checked myself on my cellphone going to Wikipedia and other Read more →