In my view, American companies are much too stingy on the amount of leave they grant employees. European countries allow much more time on average. When I worked at the Children’s Defense Fund, they practiced what they preached. Employees got six weeks of paid maternity or paternity leave when a child was born or adopted. […]
Well, if his MySpace page says so, it must be true.
Today, I was exploring the White House’s video tours. Laura Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and others give you a tour of various rooms in the historic building. It’s dry, but interesting.
Bush’s tour of the Oval Office is quite peculiar. If you listen carefully, at least twice he completely repeats himself. He recites information about […]
The TED Conference is an annual conference that brings together some of the smartest and original thinkers in the country for a series of short and interesting presentations and performances. The conference fee is nearly $5,000.
Since once again, I seem unable to cough up the tuition this year, I’m mighty glad that many of the […]
My son is starting kindergarten next year. So I was pleased to discover GreatSchools, a site that provides data on test scores, teacher-student ratios, enrollment numbers, etc. There are also parent reviews of each school. For instance, here GreatSchools’ list of Fairfax County Public Schools and my son’s likely school, Hayfield Elementary.
Some data points need […]