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Topic: Education

10 College Commercials That Actually Don't Suck Today's advertising lesson will be educational

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…

October 18 2011

Canadian Group Accused of Transphobia for Newspaper Ad Ad targets sex education plan

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…

September 30 2011

R.E.M. Breaks Up Days After Finally Licensing a Song for a TV Ad 'Oh My Heart' touts University of Georgia

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…

September 21 2011

New York State Kills Education Contract With News Corp. Subsidiary Wireless Generation was set to receive $27 million

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…

August 29 2011

Parents Sue Newark Over Zuckerberg Donation Demand full disclosure on how $100M is being used

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.…

August 24 2011

Ad seeks teachers, math skills not required

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,…

March 25 2011

Ecuadoran schools need your agency's help

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…

November 17 2010

Minnesota school goes nuts with locker ads

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…

October 21 2010

School notes to parents will carry ads next

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…

October 04 2010

Billboard touts South Bend's 'pubic' schools

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,…

September 21 2010

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