Topic: Education
College marketing is bound to get a lot more interesting, what with the corporatization of higher ed and all. But right now it's mostly still boring pastiches of smiling white…
Here's your controversial ad of the day: a full-page newspaper ad that ran in Canada's National Post this week, urging adults to stop "confusing" children by teaching them about gay…
As you've probably heard by now, R.E.M. said Wednesday that they're splitting up after 31 years. Oddly enough, the announcement came just days after an R.E.M. song popped up in…
It’s no secret that News Corp. has been trying to expand into the education business. In the past year, it hired former New York City Department of Education Chancellor Joel…
Mark Zuckerberg’s highly publicized $100 million gift to Newark’s public schools last year has led to a lawsuit from parents seeking full disclosure about how that money is being used.…
A British teacher-recruitment ad is being ridiculed for featuring a math question with the wrong answer. And who noticed the mistake? A 15-year-old viewer named Chris Coombs. According to Coombs,…
Give the gift of education this holiday season. People Helping People Disaster Relief, a group founded by executive recruiter Bonnie Lunt and supported by ad-industry execs like 4A's CEO Nancy…
When a school district in Minnesota decided to turn lockers into ad inventory, it didn't skimp on the creative palette. The Star Tribune in Minneapolis reports that some area schools…
OK, putting ads on school buses and in textbooks was one thing, but plastering them on notes sent home to parents is almost comically intrusive. But it's something parents…
Writing pubic instead of public is one of the classic typos of all time. It's extra embarrassing, though, when it appears on a giant billboard celebrating your local pubic—sorry,…
