Freetextbooks.com – Taming The High Price of Textbooks
Thirty-year-old Jonathan Robinson, founder of Birmingham-based Freetextbooks.com, has always liked looking for and finding ways to make money. But his entrepreneurial nature didn’t lead...
CCS: Company-Customized Continuing Education
A well-trained work force is essential in today’s competitive business environment. But it’s always a challenge to find the best training at the right...
Analytics In Business: Lessons in Real World Big Data
There is a scene in the movie “Moneyball” — about the Oakland Athletics’ innovative plan in the early 2000s to use advanced analytics to...
Common Core: Uncommon Agreement
On the national scene, the educational standards known as Common Core have become a political tempest, and the standards seem destined to become a...
Tutoring Company is Selling Solutions to Schools
Glenn Clayton was a college student in need of extra cash when he began tutoring. Before he knew it, he launched a full-fledged tutoring...
E-Textbook: Big Communications Way to Classroom Job Building
It’s downloadable on your smart phone, brightened with information pop-ups, enlivened with video and generally just not your granddad’s textbook: e-textbook.
It’s the new e-textbook...
A Legacy for Access
According to civil rights activist Virginia Foster Durr, there were three paths a privileged Southern woman could follow. She could live the unexamined life...
How to Sell a (Pricey) College Degree
Has it become trite to say that Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and the late Steve Jobs at Apple never finished college?
And...
Scholarships and Recruiting Top Scholars
A few years ago, only two high school seniors in Alabama scored a perfect 36 on the ACT. With scholarship offers abounding, those students...
Law Grads Face a Stern Market
Odds are, Grant Cofer has already heard more jokes about this than he ever wanted to. But between preparing for the bar...