Winners of the prestigious MacArthur genius grant were recently revealed. The list of recipients, which was released this Tuesday, offers recipients some substantial perks, most notably a $100,000 allowance per year for five years.
Most prospective recipients are often left in the dark – candidates for the award are picked without any sort of prior notification. [...]

A six month study by Danah Boyd from UC Berkeley into teens using the social networking sites Facebook and Myspace has found that Myspace users tend to be the less sucessful. According to the study, Myspace teen users are those who typically acquire a job directly after high school, as opposed to after college. Boyd [...]

The Associated Press is reporting that nearly 2,300 schools are in the process of restructing or will be in the future. This comes after all the schools failed to meet testing goals under the No Child Left Behind act. Part of the restructuring may include the acquistion of new principals and teachers. If these schools [...]