I’ve been asked to give the keynote address for ITAG’s Girls Exploring Tomorrow’s Technology event. It’s made me think about what I want to tell these these kids – what skills I wish they would all acquire. I’ve come up with these five skills that, I believe, virtually guarantee success in life. 1. Writing This [...]

Recently, during a five week trip to Africa, I got the opportunity to visit a school and a hospital in Mayange, a rural town in Rwanda. Mayange is a beneficiary of both the UN’s Millennium Villages Project and the One Laptop Per Child program. The Millennium Villages Project is an effort to eliminate poverty in which the [...]

I often debate as to whether this blog should be strictly tech-based, but then I read these articles that, well, get to me. To change the statistic that 25% of women are sexually assaulted, people need to start talking about it. Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard argument on a case where a 13 year old [...]

Creepy. From the New York Times: The authorities will be able to track San Antonio students with a history of skipping school using ankle bracelets with Global Positioning System monitoring. Linda Penn, a justice of the peace, said she expected that some 50 students would wear the devices in a six-month pilot program. The American [...]

It seems everyone wants to get a piece of the college ranking game, and Forbes is latest contender. Let’s look at how the Ivy League – the group of schools America loves to hate – fared in the newest contest: College US News Forbes Princeton #1 #1 Harvard #2 #3 Yale #3 #9 Columbia #9 [...]