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“Gallup, in partnership with Purdue University and Lumina Foundation, [on May 6, 2014] released results from the inaugural Gallup-Purdue Index that finds there is no difference in workplace engagement or a college graduate’s well-being if they attended a public or private not-for-profit institution, a highly selective institution, or a top 100-ranked school in U.S. News & …
“For the sixth consecutive year, the What Kids Are Reading – What Kids are Reading – the book reading habits of students in American schools report is ready to help guide students to the books their cohorts nationwide are reading most. Based on data for more than 9.8 million kids from 31,195 U.S. schools who read over 318 …
What Americans (Don’t) Know about Student Loan Collections, Basit Zafar, Zachary Bleemer, Meta Brown, and Wilbert van der Klaauw. Federal Reserve Bank of New York, June 5, 2014. “U.S. student debt has more than tripled since 2004, and at over $1 trillion is now substantially greater than both credit card and auto debt balances. There are substantial …
VA REAL PROPERTY: Action Needed to Improve the Leasing of Outpatient Clinics, GAO-14-300: Published: Apr 30, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 3, 2014. CONSUMERS’ LOCATION DATA: Companies Take Steps to Protect Privacy, but Practices Are Inconsistent, and Risks May Not be Clear to Consumers, GAO-14-649T: Published: Jun 4, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 4, 2014. DHS INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS: Additional Actions Needed to Address Analytic …
Measles — United States, January 1–May 23, 2014 – Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Early Release May 29, 2014 / 63(Early Release);1-4 “Two hundred and eighty-eight cases of measles were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States between Jan. 1 and May 23, 2014. This is the largest number of measles …
Via ACT – Catching Up to College and Career Readiness: The Challenge Is Greater for At-Risk Students – May 2014 “Educators and policymakers have set a goal that all students graduate from high school ready for college and careers. As a nation, however, we are falling short of achieving this goal, particularly for students from at-risk groups. …
Via LLRX – Why the DPLA should focus on being a stellar ACADEMIC library: Check out these statistics David Rothman acknowledges the attributes of the expanding DPLA program but highlights that it is lacking key components to make it a truly comprehensive academic digital library, including collection and business strategies. Rothman states that “DPLAers” keep insisting that …
Via LLRX – Gates Global Libraries Program is Winding Down: Time for a National Digital library Endowment to Fill the Vacuum David Rothman informs us that out of several billion a year in grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, just tens of millions go for public libraries in the U.S. and overseas. But as all …
“For decades, opportunity has lagged behind for boys and young men of color. But across the country, communities are adopting innovative approaches, opening doors, strengthening supports, and building ladders of opportunity for young people, including boys and young men of color, to help put them on the path to success. President Obama wants to build …
“EDP Open, the Open Access publishing arm of EDP Sciences, has today released the results of a survey to appraise attitudes toward Open Access amongst learned society publishers. The survey was answered by 33 learned societies and the results were further supplemented by a focus group held at the annual UKSG meeting in Harrogate in April. …
National Science Foundation – Graduate Education, Enrollment, and Degrees in the United States Graduate Enrollment in S&E S&E Master’s Degrees S&E Doctoral Degrees “Graduate education in S&E contributes to global competitiveness, producing the highly skilled workers of the future and the research needed for a knowledge-based economy. In 2009, the Council of Graduate Schools and the …
“The Congress has mandated that the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) produce an annual Condition of Education report to help inform policymakers about the progress of education in the United States. This year’s report presents 42 indicators on important topics and trends in U.S. education. These indicators focus on population characteristics, participation in education, elementary and …
