Tag Archives: Education

ZDNet – Students suspended, expelled over Facebook posts

The school shouldn’t have a right to dic­tate what stu­dents due in the pri­vacy of their online accounts or in their free time.

March 6, 2011 – 12:02 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – Texas, Budget Cuts and Children

Who cares about ensur­ing the health and edu­ca­tion of chil­dren, not Texas.

February 27, 2011 – 10:32 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – China, Twitter and 20-Year-Olds vs. the Pyramids

Do you really need a bet­ter expla­na­tion for why the revolts happened?

February 20, 2011 – 2:53 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Miller-McCune – Book Banners Finding Power in Numbers

Ban­ning a book or in real­ity knowl­edge has to be one of the worst deci­sions any per­son could make.

February 13, 2011 – 4:02 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Art, Communication, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – Failure to Launch

Ouch.

February 13, 2011 – 1:43 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

TechCrunch – Instructure Launches To Root Blackboard Out Of Universities

I’m not even in col­lege any­more and I want Black­board to fail in the most spec­tac­u­lar way possible.

February 2, 2011 – 1:37 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Random | Tagged , | Comments Off

Kickstarter – Standing Up To The Experts by Orlando Wood

They’ve already reached their goal and then some but this looks like an awe­some project.

January 24, 2011 – 10:37 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off