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Jeff Sandefer said he shattered the lower part of his back after falling 100 feet into a mountain.

On Saturday, young entrepreneurs showed their innovative ideas at the 1st annual Avila Beach Children's Business Fair.

Kidpreneurs showcase their business skills at the Children's Business Fair July 17   Updated 7/14/2021 6:25 PM Could a 10-year-old invent the next Uber? Could you be living next door to the next Elon Musk or Oprah Winfrey? Find out at the Acton Children's Business Fair at Arrow Academy, showcasing kids' entrepreneurial genius! On Saturday, July 17, from 10 a.m. to noon, the inaugural Acton Children's Business Fair will host young entrepreneurs on Arrow Academy's campus at 1120 E. Diehl Road in Naperville. This event is free and open to the public.   The 40 "Kidpreneurs," ages 6-14...

Before Jordan Peterson became the world’s most polarizing intellectual, he was a salesman. In the late 1990s, he flew to corporate HQs across North America to pitch a piece of hiring software called ExamCorp, a 90-minute psych assessment he’d developed with colleagues as a young assistant psychology professor at Harvard. It was simple, a personality test and some computerized tasks—click certain objects, generate words that start with, say, the letter H. Peterson told managers it could help them hire the right person for a position, and that tests like these had reliably predicted the j...

How COVID-19 could force lawmakers to broaden K-12 school choice Many families don’t want to return to conventional K-12 schooling. By William Mattox If Texas legislators do not soon embrace new approaches to K-12 education, Texas could easily fall further behind its Sun Belt rivals in attracting education-minded newcomers to the state. And COVID-19 would be partly to blame. When I speak of new or unusual education approaches in K-12, I’m not referring to forms of education that lack merit. Or that fail to produce excellence. Quite the contrary. I’m referring instead to innovative forms...