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The day I took my mother to work and….
by Ira S Wolfe
May 13, 2009
Career Change, Education, Generation Gaps, Human resources, Leadership, workforce trends
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My 85 year-old mother is visiting with us this week. I invited her to come to "work" with me yesterday. Not only was she thrilled…
While academics and bureaucrats fiddle, dropout rate soars
by Ira S Wolfe
May 11, 2009
Education, Employee Shortages, Generation Gaps, Leadership, Skills Shortages, workforce trends
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The high school dropout rate in the U.S. is soaring. The Obama administration has budgeted $50 million to dropout prevention program, but solving this problem will require…
Teacher Absences: Is this any way to run a business?
Public school teachers in the United States are absent between nine and 10 days per year, on average. In other words, between kindergarten and 12th grade, a typical student is…
OOPS! Math mistake forces teacher layoffs
You can only sit back and smile at the irony of this story. U.S. high school students are getting their lunches eaten when it comes to math and science…