Category «Education»

New GAO Reports – Community Colleges, Education Research, FAA Facilities, Federal Judgeships, FOIA, NARA

COMMUNITY COLLEGES – New Federal Research Center May Enhance Current Understanding of Developmental Education – GAO-13-656, Sep 10, 2013 EDUCATION RESEARCH – Preliminary Observations on the Institute of Education Sciences’ Research and Evaluation Efforts – GAO-13-852T, Sep 10, 2013 FAA FACILITIES – Improved Condition Assessment Methods Could Better Inform Maintenance Decisions and Capital- Planning Efforts – GAO-13-757, Sep 10, 2013 FEDERAL JUDGESHIPS – The General …

Subjects: Courts, E-Government, E-Records, Education, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research

The G20 Leaders’ Declaration has been published

G20: “In Washington, London and Pittsburgh, we took decisive steps to stimulate the world economy, restore growth, recapitalise financial institutions, launch an ambitious program to reform the financial sector, maintain open markets and clamp-down on tax havens. Significantly, we established the Financial Stability Board (FSB), tripled the resources available to the IMF, and put in …

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

Report – The Humanities and Social Sciences

The Heart of the Matter – The Humanities and Social Sciences for a vibrant, competitive, and secure nation. American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2013. [This report] “identifies three overarching goals: 1) to educate Americans in the knowledge, skills, and understanding they will need to thrive in a twenty-first-century democracy; 2) to foster a society …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management

UN World Happiness Report 2013

“As with last year’s report, we have again assembled the available international happiness data on how people rate both their emotions and their lives as a whole. We divide the available measures into three main types: measures of positive emotions (positive affect) including happiness, usually asked about the day preceding the survey; measures of negative …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Education, Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management

Are Tenure Track Professors Better Teachers?

Are Tenure Track Professors Better Teachers? – David N. Figlio, Morton O. Schapiro, Kevin B. Soter – NBER Working Paper No. 19406 Issued in September 2013 “This study makes use of detailed student-level data from eight cohorts of first-year students at Northwestern University to investigate the relative effects of tenure track/tenured versus non-tenure line faculty …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management

10 Part Series examines rising costs and consequences of higher education

The Tuition is Too Damn High is a 10-part series that will run in Wonkblog over the next two weeks exploring the causes and consequences of — and potential fixes for — the skyrocketing costs of higher education. This is part one.” By Dylan Matthews “But if the upfront price of college is rising much faster than earnings, …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System

BLS – Long-term unemployment over men’s careers

“Since the start of the recent recession, which began in December 2007, many unemployed Americans have entered the ranks of the long-term unemployed (those who are unemployed for 27 weeks or more). Long-term unemployment peaked at 46 percent of total unemployment in May 2010, well after the recent recession ended in June 2009. In contrast, …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents

Sodium Intake in Populations: Assessment of Evidence

“Despite efforts over the past several decades to reduce sodium intake in the United States, adults still consume an average of 3,400 mg of sodium every day. A number of scientific bodies and professional health organizations, including the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association, and the American Public Health Association, support reducing dietary sodium …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Government Documents, Health Care

Industry Statistics Portal

“This new Web application, which replaces the existing Industry Statistics Sampler, provides easy access to all Census Bureau programs that release statistics for a user-selected industry, as classified by the North American Industry Classification System. Census Bureau business and industry statistics dating back to 1997 (according to the 2007 classification) will be available on the …

Subjects: E-Government, Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents

After a Recent Upswing, College Enrollment Declines

“According to U.S. Census Bureau statistics released today, college enrollment in fall 2012 plunged by half a million (467,000) from one year earlier. This decline, which includes both graduate and undergraduate enrollment, follows a period of substantial growth — 3.2 million — between 2006 and 2011. These statistics come from School Enrollment: 2012. As the …

Subjects: Education, Financial System, Government Documents

New on LLRX – E-Books and the Miami-Dade Library Crisis

Via LLRX.com – E-Books and the Miami-Dade Library Crisis: One Way to Help Thwart the Misers David Rothman makes a case that the time has come for a coherent national strategy to help speed up digitization of library systems like Miami’s and use the efficiencies of e-books and other digital items to squeeze more out …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Regional Concentrations of Scientists and Engineers in the US

“Science and engineering (S&E) employment in the United States is geographically concentrated in a small number of states and several major metropolitan areas within those states, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2011 American Community Survey (ACS). The three most populous states—California, Texas, and New York—together accounted for more than one-fourth of all …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents

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