Two deep south states (La. and Ms.) have created or condidered separate courses and paths for college and careers. This makes me wonder about agreement on a 50 state common core curriculum for all secondary school students. See the announcement below by ECS: High school students who don’t want to go to college would have an option to pursue [...]

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All throughout the bible, from the beginning, of creation, and in creation itself, we are told of many great miracles.  Man made from the dust and clay and given life by the breath of God.  There were miracles in the burning bush, parting of the Red Sea, and Manna from heaven.  There were great miraculous [...]

SCORE CEO Featured SCORE CEO, Ken Yancey, was recently featured on the American Express OPEN for Small Business blog. His advice, get a mentor. Now is a great time. Here’s an excerpt from the post. With the American Express OPEN Government Contracting Procurement & Networking Event approaching on March 31st, I wanted to talk with one [...]

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"Easy things nobody wants, but what is forbidden is tempting." ~ Ovid Back in the 60s and 70s, before the sexual revolution had really taken hold, the standard dating advice for women was play hard to get. In some quarters it still is. Like the Roman poet Ovid 2,000 years earlier, social scientists in the 1960s accepted [...] » From...