The ladder to job security goes up, and it goes back down. You are either going up that ladder or going down. Maybe you are doing fine, a few rungs up the ladder. One day BAM. Your company fires half it’s employees, and there you go… slipping back down the rungs you worked so very hard...

You drive into the high school parking lot, your wipers slashing at the heavy rain. It’s the first day of spring and students run from their cars and the school buses, into the dry halls of the high school. You’re heading for the faculty lot when you see them. At the far end of the student...

“One year I had a student with a near-perfect SAT score and straight A’s. I’d originally put him in the submitted pile, but then we had to reduce the list. I reread his essays and frankly, they were just a little more boring than the other kids. So I cut him. Boring was the only justification that...

One brilliant kid grows up and cures AIDS. Another brilliant kid grows up and becomes the Unabomber. Why? You know why. You teach standard mainstream fourth grade. And your favorite student comes in without the homework again. “Actually,” he says, “I forgot. Really, I should...

FIRST-IN UNITS REPORT HEAVY FIRE CONDITIONS. POOR WATER SUPPLY AND FAST FIRE. SINGLE HOME. INHABITANTS TRAPPED, POSSIBLE CHILDREN. ALL UNITS RESPOND! You don’t feel like a hero. It’s what you do. Going into Hell is part of the job. You’ve been fighting fires for a couple of years...

This is your world. Exceptional students. The disabled and the gifted. You were always drawn to that side, the disabled kids. There are so many more of them than the gifted. Their needs seem so desperate, their gratitude so overwhelming. You’d always wanted to teach. You’d grown up...

You wonder how they got to be then world leaders that they are? The financial giants whose faces we see on magazine covers, on web news? How did they start? How did they get a foot on that corporate ladder to the rarified air of global wealth? Business is a profit-driven force that drives human affairs....

Founded in 1949, Grand Canyon University (GCU) is Arizona’s private university. The prestigious Christian university is regionally accredited and is recognized as offering some of the best online education programs in the nation by noteworthy sources including Fortune Small Business, Technology...

Worried about the future? You should be. We all should be. Worried about the security of the profession you are choosing, or may choose? Today, let’s just talk about how a degree affects your future employability. Let’s look at trends projected for the coming years. For 12 of the 20...