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Cultivating Young Womens Leadership for a Kinder, Braver World, Anna Rorem and Dr. Monisha Bajaj. December 17, 2012 “There is not much research exploring leadership development and civic participation among youth, and even less among young women. Policymakers and others seeking to better serve youth in pursuit of a kinder, braver world should take into …
Generosity and Political Preferences, Christopher T. Dawes, Magnus Johannesson, Erik Lindqvist, Peter Loewen, Robert Östling, Marianne Bonde and Frida Priks. Research Institute of Financial Economics, IFN Working Paper No. 941, 2012. “We test whether generosity is related to political preferences and partisanship in Canada, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States using incentivized dictator …
Optimal Control of Global Warming, Gary Erickson, University of Washington – Michael G. Foster School of Business. December 26, 2012. Available at SSRN “An optimal control model of global warming is presented and analyzed. The model has two state variables, representing the anthropogenic concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the temperature increase due …
Brett Caine writing in Forbes: “We have become a society that communicates and shares just about everything we do, with one notable exception work. Work is the place where social firewalls go up when they really should come down. After all, our teams are about teamwork. Social is the perfect tool to get our …
Betsy Mason – “The longest-operating Earth observing satellite is ending its mission after nearly 29 years, more than 150,000 orbits and 2.5 million images. Landsat 5 outlived its planned 3-year operation almost 10 times over, saving the continuity of the Landsat mission. Landsat 5’s longevity became critical after Landsat 6 failed to reach orbit in …
Graphic – “Low-income students with above-average scores on eighth grade tests have a college graduation rate of 26 percent lower than more affluent students with worse test scores. Thirty years ago, there was a 31 percentage point difference in the share of affluent and poor students who earned a college degree. Now the gap …
How to Engage Young People: Lessons from Lowell, MA. December 17, 2012 Sopheap Linda C. Sou, Darcie DeAngelo, Masada Jones, and Monica Veth “A youth organizations success depends on young peoples participation within the local community. Many of the issues facing young people today reflect a poor engagement with community politics, cultural identity formation, and …
“The cost of attending public colleges is rising faster than the cost of private colleges, as states reduce funding. This graphic shows the published tuition and fees for state residents in 2012-13, and in 2006-07, for 72 public universities with substantial research activity, including many state flagship schools.”
Reading Habits in Different Communities, by Carolyn Miller, Kristen Purcell and Lee Rainie. December 20, 2012 “Reading is foundational to learning and the information acquisition upon which people make decisions. For centuries, the capacity to read has been a benchmark of literacy and involvement in community life. In the 21st Century, across all types of …
“The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) is very proud to present the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, a free online digitized virtual library of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Hundreds of manuscripts made up of thousands of fragments – discovered from 1947 and until the early 1960’s in the Judean Desert along the western shore …
Via LLRX.com – Marcus P. Zillman’s new research focuses on Deep Web Research and Discovery Resources 2013, comprising in the vicinity of 1 trillion pages of information located in various files and formats that the current search engines cannot find, or have difficulty accessing. Some of the more comprehensive search engines have written algorithms to …
College Spending in a Turbulent Decade: Findings From the Delta Cost Project, A Delta Data Update 20002010, December 2012 “Two years after the onset of the Great Recession, nonprofit colleges and universities found themselves struggling with their finances. Average per-student spending on academics declined in fiscal year (FY) 2010, and despite per-student spending cuts to …
