Google now uses page load times as a key metric in site result placement. Make your site load faster and you’ll be ranked higher, guaranteed. – Andy Roberts, Managing Partner, Roberts Strategies Andy Roberts, managing partner, recently spoke to the Topanga, CA Technology Group on improving web performance. He showed how a few changes in [...]
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State needs new emphasis on higher education
Where does public higher education stand in the pecking order of priorities in the Volunteer State? Not very high, I’m afraid. In the past decade we have seen major shifts, some good and some bad, in efforts to provide a quality post-secondary education for Tennessee’s students. I had the privilege of being involved in one [...]
Nashville Eye Higher Ed Feels Hit
When does enough finally become too much? Tennessee may be reaching that point in one significantly critical area as the state budget belt tightens in response to an economic downturn. That area: Higher education. As one who has been privileged to work in higher education (University of Tennessee) and to consult with the nation’s sixth [...]
Nashville should boldly lead the way in school director search
A couple of years ago, Rip Van Winkle awakened after 100 years of sleep to see what the world had become. As he rubbed his eyes, so the story goes, Van Winkle was amazed by the wondrous changes that had occurred during his century of somnolence. Automobiles, airplanes, space ships, telephones, radio, television and the [...]
C’mon teachers, get real
It’s easy to get “furiouser and furiouser” watching educated people kicking, not just looking, a gift horse in the mouth. I don’t know who volunteered to anonymously donate $400,000 for incentives to help in producing better results in some of Metro’s most troubled schools, I know that they must be a generous and dedicated citizen. [...]