Archive for December, 2011

Holiday basketball tournaments come to a close

The Nova girls had a solid showing at the Florida Prospects Invitational, losing in the championship game to Dr. Phillips 68-53. Trellanie English-Lurry led Nova (10-1) with 20 points. The Deerfield beach boys team defeated Piper 76-46 in the championship game of the Deerfield Beach Holiday Blitz on Friday. Boyd Anderson beat Deerfield Beach 67-23 [...]

Wednesday roundup: New Ro, White Plains win league openers

It was a tough opening weekend for New Rochelle and White Plains, which both lost down on Long Island by double-digits. But the two perennial Class AA challengers bounced back today by winning their league openers. Joe Clarke and Kirkland Ottey led the Huguenots to a victory over Scarsdale. Anthony Williams and Michael Scotman paced [...]

National Entrepreneur Day and the MBA

Today is the first National Entrepreneur Day, as spearheaded by Grasshopper Group and declared by President Obama. In honor of the day well take a look at the classic question, Should entrepreneurs get an MBA? These days, programs to support entrepreneurship at MBA programs are on the rise.  Here are two perspectives: • Guy Kawasaki is somewhat famed [...]

Florida public schools lag nation in meeting fed goals

Florida leads the nation in the number of schools failing to meet No Child Left Behind Act guidelines. A report released today by the Center on Education Policy shows 89 percent of Florida public schools did not meet the acts adequate yearly progress requirements during the 2010-11 school year. That compares to a national average [...]

ACT Science Practice: How to Understand “Weaken Hypothesis” Questions

On the Research Summaries passages on Test Day, you may see questions that ask about the hypotheses each experiment is based on – some will ask you to weaken and some will ask you to strengthen these hypotheses. For the weaken questions, you must fully understand the set-up behind the experiments in order to know [...]