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“Today the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) released What Does It Really Mean to Be College and Work Ready?, a study of the English Literacy and Mathematics required for success in the first year of community college. During a day-long meeting with key education and policy leaders, NCEE will discuss the results …
Words that last, by Wilson Andrews and David Brown, May 6, 2013 “A research team led by Mark Pagel at the University of Reading in England has identified 23 ultraconserved words that have remained largely unchanged for 15,000 years. Words that sound and mean the same thing in different languages are called cognates. These are …
News release: “Floating plastic debris which helps populate the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean has become a problem in the Great Lakes, the largest body of fresh water in the world. Scientists reported on the latest findings from the Great Lakes here today at the 245th National Meeting & …
Gallup: “Americans’ financial worry has eased to the lowest level since before the recession. Gallup classifies 53% of Americans as highly or moderately worried about their finances, down from a peak of 61% a year ago, and the lowest since 45% in 2007. The results are based on Gallup’s annual Economy and Personal Finance survey, …
“The 2012 Tuition Discounting Study (TDS) shows a drop in enrollment, a large jump in the discount rate, and falling net tuition revenue for 2011 at private, nonprofit colleges and universities.” See also- MscKinsey & Co.: College for all – Open online courses are changing higher education. Traditional colleges face dangersand opportunities. May 2013 | …
Who Is Willing to Sacrifice Ethical Values for Money and Social Status? Gender Differences in Reactions to Ethical Compromises. Jessica A. Kennedy, Laura J. Kray. Published online before print March 28, 2013, doi: 10.1177/1948550613482987 Social Psychological and Personality Science March 28, 2013 1948550613482987 “Women select into business school at a lower rate than men and …
Hollee Schwartz Temple: “When people say everything’s online,” says Jerry Dupont of the Law Library Microform Consortium, “they’re woefully uninformed.” Dupont, founder of the LLMC, a nonprofit law library cooperative, estimates that of the 2 million unique volumes contained in Americas law libraries, only about 15 percent are available in digital form. That figure includes …
New York Times, Jennifer Steinhauer: “Just as military contractors, air traffic controllers and federal workers are coping with the grim results of a partisan impasse over the federal deficit, the Library of Congress, whose services range from copyrighting written works whether famous novels or poems scribbled on napkins to the collection, preservation and …
“The Foundation For The Revival Of Classical Culture presents master pianist Tian Jiang in a concert entitled “Properly Performed Masterpieces”. The concert will occur at New York City’s Carnegie Hall Zankel Hall, May 28 at 7:30 pm. The program includes Beethoven’s Sonata no.7 in E flat Major, op.10, no.3; the Sonata no.23 in F minor, …
Accenture 2013 College Graduate Employment Survey Key Findings: “Accenture conducted an online survey in the United States of 1,010 students graduating from college in 2013 and entering the job market, and 1,005 participants who already graduated college in 2011 or 2012. The survey was conducted between March 22 and April 1, 2013. 41 percent of …
Matt Smith, PCWorld: “As far as 99.9 percent of the world population is concerned, Microsoft is a stodgy, old-guard technology company. Its bottom line is fully leveraged against PC operating systems and business softwarehardly the building blocks of a future-thinking portfolio, right? But scratch that cold, conservative, pedestrian surface, and youll find a Microsoft thats …
The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society, April 30, 2013 “A new Pew Research Center survey of Muslims around the globe finds that most adherents of the worlds second-largest religion are deeply committed to their faith and want its teachings to shape not only their personal lives but also their societies and politics. In all …
