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Knowledge Compression and Curation

In what is plausibly a new trend, there are two online services that say they can “compress knowledge”. Or words to that effect. In today’s world of way too much knowledge…it seems at times anyway…first rate curation could be extremely...

IL, NM, WA etc battle for education funding

AS noted in a recent post, funding for education in the US is precarious, and in some cases and states, under extreme duress. One state, that decades ago had one of the better educational systems of any state, is in an ongoing ideological battle for educational...

Higher Ed crisis continues

Economic setbacks from global economic trends and the recession job losses, along with partisan gridlock, have put many states’ budgets into crisis mode overall. It’s not just the states that are under the present control of “cut government costs as...