Classroom Web logs, or blogs, many of which got their start in the last school year, are becoming increasingly popular with teachers like Mrs. Dudiak as a forum for expression for students as young as the second-grade level and in almost any subject. In the blogs, students write about how they attacked a tough math problem, post observations about their ...

A relentless rise in the cost of employee health insurance has become a significant factor in the employment slump, as the labor market adds only a trickle of new jobs each month despite nearly three years of uninterrupted economic growth.

I attended the World Future Society meeting in Washington, DC, as did the rest of the FI Center team a couple of weeks ago. When I was there I picked up a publication titled “From Scan to Plan” from the American Society of Association Executives, an organization that covers topics of interest to many kinds of trade, professional and volunteer ...

From the WSJ. In the latest salvo in the battle over cheaper, imported pharmaceuticals, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said he will set up a program to help state residents order prescription drugs from Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom through a Web site and toll-free phone number. The Illinois arrangement is more ambitious than Web sites offered by Minnesota and ...