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Monthly Archives: February 2007

Grades Rise, but Reading Skills Do Not

The New York Times says:
It showed that the share of 12th-grade students lacking even basic high school reading skills — meaning they could not, for example, extract data about train fares at different times of day from a brochure — rose to 27 percent from 20 percent in 1992.
This is not good. The luxury of […]

Stock Photos

I find this fascinating - stock photos tagged as “Business Intelligence”. Somehow these people in white suits represent “Business Intelligence” in the stories we tell ourselves; they do it well enough that people looking for BI pictures will buy the ones in this category. Is this what a businessman looks like? Is this what a […]

It Begins…

A place in which to document the Things I Find.