Blogs

Recently, I stumbled across a post by Seth Godin that was super valuable to me. In it, he spotlighted a series of books that he was currently reading.

As simple as that sounds, Godin's post was helpful simply because it turned me on to interesting titles that I may never have found on my own in the sea of paper that is published every year.

Essentially, Godin became my information filter -- pointing me to books that had a higher likelihood of being valuable because they were prescreened by someone that I trust.

So I figured I'd start doing the same thing here on the Radical every now and then.

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Earlier this month, a research paper coming out of the Heritage Center for Data Analysis by Andrew Biggs and Jason Richwine claimed that teachers are overpaid compared to similarly educated counterparts in other professions.  The researchers added benefits to teacher pay--benefits most teachers never see because they are deferred until retirement age--and counted only teacher's on-the-clock hours, and NO summer hours.  [See comments by researcher, Jason Richwine, and myself below.)

The conclusions are extremely flawed.  Responses to the argument are now being posted at The Debate...

I stumbled across an interesting service called Vetter this week.  In its simplest form, Vetter is a digital suggestion box designed to get ideas from employees. 

What makes Vetter unique, however, is that it also allows you to create groups of employees who can read and rate the suggestions that are being submitted by their peers on a scale of one to five. 

Essentially, this collective review and rating process allows leaders to take advantage of the wisdom of crowds.  Ideas that are reviewed by a diverse cross...

Recently the Seattle Times published an article and an editorial piece about a local school whose new principal was now enforcing the daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance as required under state law. A series of letters to the editor (here, here and here...