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News release: “The U.S. Department of Education today is launching a new interactive Web site aimed at making accurate and timely education data available in a single place. A key element of the Department’s open government plan, ED Data Express consolidates relevant data collected by the Department from several different sources and provides search tools …
News release: “U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced the award of $115.3 million to 124 school districts to improve the quality of teaching American history in our nation’s schools. The Teaching American History grant program aims to enhance teachers’ understanding of American history through intensive professional development, including study trips to historic sites …
AP: “The library board in Camden, one of the nation’s poorest cities, is preparing to close all three of its libraries by the end of the year, saying its funding has been slashed so drastically that it cannot afford to keep operating. Library officials are hoping enough money surfaces to save the system, but they’re …
Report Points to Challenges Across the Pipeline that Impact America’s Ability to Compete: “The United States is facing an alarming education deficit that threatens our global competitiveness and economic future. The country is not keeping pace with other industrialized nations: Once a world leader in the proportion of adults ages 25 to 34 with postsecondary …
Leisure College, USA – The Decline in Student Study Time By Philip Babcock, Mindy Marks (August 2010) “In 1961, the average full-time student at a four-year college in the United States studied about twenty-four hours per week, while his modern counterpart puts in only fourteen hours per week. Students now study less than half as …
NOAA: “The vast majority of the oil from the BP oil spill has either evaporated or been burned, skimmed, recovered from the wellhead or dispersed much of which is in the process of being degraded. A significant amount of this is the direct result of the robust federal response efforts. A third (33 percent) of …
Trust Online: Young Adults’ Evaluation of Web Content, by Eszter Hargittai, Lindsay Fullerton, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Kristin Yates Thomas. International Journal of Communication, Vol 4 (2010) “Little of the work on online credibility assessment has considered how the information-seeking process figures into the final evaluation of content people encounter. Using unique data about how a diverse …
Pew Internet: Reputation Management and Social Media – How people monitor their identity and search for others online by Mary Madden, Aaron Smith, May 26, 2010 “More than half (57%) of adult internet users say they have used a search engine to look up their name and see what information was available about them online, …
The 2010 state CIO survey – Perspectives and trends from state government IT leaders August 2010 “Two-thirds of CIOs expect lower IT budgets in 2011 through 2013. Some are turning to staff reductions, IT consolidation, shared services and other solutions to lower costs. However, they say that tight budgets stimulate creative solutions for increasing IT …
Worldreader.org / E-reader Trial Report: OrphanAid Africa School, Ayenyah, Ghana March, 2010 – by Mike Sundermeyer, David Risher, Colin McElwee “Worldreader.org is a not-for-profit organization based in Barcelona, Spain and the U.S., whose aim is to make digital books accessible to all in the developing world, from students to families to communities. As a way …
Exclusive – Google, CIA Invest in Future of Web Monitoring, By Noah Shachtman, July 28, 2010: “The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it …
Statement of the Librarian of Congress on the Anticircumvention Rulemaking, July 26, 2010 Determination of the Librarian of Congress and Text of the Regulation (to be published in Federal Register Tuesday, July 27, 2010 The Recommendation of the Register of Copyrights: “The Librarian of Congress has announced the classes of works subject to the exemption …
