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The 2010 Brown Center Report on American Education: How Well are American Students Learning?, With Sections on International Tests, Whos Winning the Real Race to the Top, and NAEP and the Common Core State Standards – by Tom Loveless, February 2011 Senior Fellow, the Brown Center on Education Policy, February 2011 “This edition of the …
EPIC: “Facebook will now allow full-session HTTPS. The switch to encrypted cloud-based computing promotes privacy and security, particularly when users access Facebook from public Internet access points. Previously, Facebook only used HTTPS when users passwords were being sent to the site. Third party applications currently do not support HTTPS. Users can opt into HTTPS through …
Via LLRX.com – Deep Web Research 2011: Internet research guru Marcus P. Zillman’s comprehensive, extensive guide focuses on how expert search engines have written algorithms to mine the deeper portions of the web by targeting file formats such as .pdf, .doc, .xls, ppt, .ps. and others. These files are predominately used by businesses to communicate …
“Plants For A Future (PFAF) is a charitable company, originally set up to support the work of Ken and Addy Fern on their experimental site in Cornwall, where they carried out research and provided information on edible and otherwise useful plants suitable for growing outdoors in a temperate climate. Over time they planted 1500 species …
Managing Talent Will Be Even Tougher in 2011: “Several trends are expected to make the mission of talent management even more challenging in 2011, according to Douglas Matthews, President and Chief Operating Officer for Right Management. Right Management is the talent and career management expert within Manpower, the world leader in innovative workforce solutions. Retaining, …
Medicaid and CHIP: Given the Association between Parent and Child Insurance Status, New Expansions May Benefit Families, GAO-11-264, February 04, 2011 Electronic Records Archive: National Archives Needs to Strengthen Its Capacity to Use Earned Value Techniques to Manage and Oversee Development, GAO-11-86, January 13, 2011: “Since 2001, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has …
“Blessings in a Backpack is a results-oriented program. This unique program is designed to feed elementary school children whose families qualify for the federal free and reduced meal program, and may not have any or enough food on the weekends. Better test scores, improved reading skills, positive behavior, improved health and increased attendance have all …
“Three papers published by The Lancet show that the worldwide prevalence of obesity has nearly doubled since 1980. Meanwhile high-income countries have shown impressive reductions in mean blood pressure and cholesterol, with some countries doing much better than others. The Articles present country by country trends in obesity, cholesterol, and blood pressure.”
News release: “First-year college students’ self-ratings of their emotional health dropped to record low levels in 2010, according to the CIRP Freshman Survey, UCLA’s annual survey of the nation’s entering students at four-year colleges and universities. The survey, part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP), is administered nationally by the Higher Education Research Institute …
News release: “Despite decades of efforts to reform education, and billions of dollars of expenditures, the harsh reality is that America is still failing to prepare millions of its young people to lead successful lives as adults. Evidence of this failure is everywhere: in the dropout epidemic that plagues our high schools and colleges; in …
The Risky Business of Information Sharing: Why You Need to Care About Copyright: Copyright is an essential tool in the spread of new ideas, and the workplace has become ground zero for infringement. Ask employees up and down the corporate hierarchy, and they’ll tell you that whisking information electronically to co-workers is integral to their …
Abandoning Law Reports for Official Digital Case Law, Peter W. Martin, Cornell Law School, January 25, 2011, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-01 “In 2009, Arkansas ended publication of the Arkansas Reports. Since 1837 this series of volumes, joined in the late twentieth century by the Arkansas Appellate Reports covering the state’s intermediate court …
