Category «Education»

Unlawfully Present Aliens, Higher Education, In-State Tuition, and Financial Aid: Legal Analysis

CRS – Unlawfully Present Aliens, Higher Education, In-State Tuition, and Financial Aid: Legal Analysis. Kate M. Manuel, Legislative Attorney, March 28, 2014 “The existence of a sizable population of “DREAMers” in the United States has prompted questions about unlawfully present aliens’ eligibility for admission to public institutions of higher education, in-state tuition, and financial aid. The term DREAMer is …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Education, Government Documents, Legal Research

Monthly Labor Review – April 2014

Lawrence R. Klein Award recipients announced for 2013 04/02/2014 Unemployment continued its downward trend in 2013 04/01/2014 Nonfarm employment continued its road to recovery in 2013 03/28/2014 Women not yet “on board” 03/28/2014 A better way to measure pay differentials among industries 03/19/2014 Investment in higher education by race and ethnicity 03/11/2014 Single mothers and welfare: a new perspective 03/11/2014 New college …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Energy, Financial System, Government Documents

Report – The Case for Investing in Women

High-performing companies have women in senior management: “Cristian Dezsö at the University of Maryland, and David Ross at Columbia University Business School applied Standard & Poor’s ExecuComp data to the top 1,500 US ﬁrms from 1992 to 2006. They examined the relationship between ﬁrm quality as measured by Tobin’s Q (the market value of a …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Knowledge Management

Towers Watson – Capturing Meaningful Employee Opinion Data

“Today’s business leaders are inundated with a vast ongoing flow of information. Technological advances allow us to track financial results, customer behavior and operational performance on an up-to-the-minute basis. It is therefore only natural for leaders to expect that all business-relevant information — including employee opinion — should be gathered and reported on an equally …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Knowledge Management

Developing a 21st Century Global Library for Mathematics Research

“Like most areas of scholarship, mathematics is a cumulative discipline: new research is reliant on well-organized and well-curated literature. Because of the precise definitions and structures within mathematics, today’s information technologies and machine learning tools provide an opportunity to further organize and enhance discoverability of the mathematics literature in new ways, with the potential to …

Subjects: Education, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?

The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation? Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne, September 17, 2013 “Nearly half of US jobs could be susceptible to computerisation over the next two decades, a study from the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology suggests. The study, a collaboration between Dr Carl Benedikt Frey (Oxford Martin School) and Dr Michael …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Economy, Education, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Marketing

Teaching the Movement 2014: The State of Civil Rights Education in the United States

“This report was prepared by the Southern Poverty Law Center under the guidance of Teaching Tolerance Director Maureen Costello. The principal researcher and writer was Kate Shuster, Ph.D. The report was reviewed by Hasan Jeffries, Ph.D. and Jeremy Stern, Ph.D. It was edited by Maureen Costello, Alice Pettway, Adrienne van der Valk and Monita Bell …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Education

Commentary on Big data – does hype live up to expectations

Big data: are we making a big mistake? By Tim Harford: “Big data is a vague term for a massive phenomenon that has rapidly become an obsession with entrepreneurs, scientists, governments and the media…As with so many buzzwords, “big data” is a vague term, often thrown around by people with something to sell. Some emphasise the sheer scale of …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

UN Report – Teaching and Learning: Achieving Quality for All

“This 11th EFA Global Monitoring Report provides a timely update on progress that countries are making towards the global education goals that were agreed in 2000. It also makes a powerful case for placing education at the heart of the global development agenda after 2015. In 2008, the EFA Global Monitoring Report asked – ‘will …

Subjects: Education, Government Documents, Libraries

The U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce

The U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce: Recent, Current, and Projected Employment, Wages, and Unemployment, John F. Sargent Jr., Specialist in Science and Technology Policy, February 19, 2014 “The adequacy of the U.S. science and engineering workforce has been an ongoing concern of Congress for more than 60 years. Scientists and engineers are widely believed to be essential to U.S. …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Education, Government Documents

Talent Trends 2014 – What’s on the minds of the professional workforce

LinkedIn: “For career-minded people everywhere, these are interesting times. Economies continue to falter in several regions of the world, which can make job transition frustrating for the one in four professionals actively seeking their next role. That said, for anyone open to a career move, we live in an era of unprecedented transparency. More job opportunities are viewable …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System, Knowledge Management

Scout – Open Source tool to get alerts on issues you care about

“Scout is a free service that provides daily insight to how our laws and regulations are shaped in Washington, DC and our state capitols. These days, you can receive electronic alerts to know when a company is in the news, when a TV show is scheduled to air or when a sports team wins. Now, you …

Subjects: Climate Change, Congress, E-Government, Education, Energy, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation

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