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The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Virtual-TA, a service of a company called EduMetry Inc., took over. The goal of the service is to relieve professors and teaching assistants of a traditional and sometimes tiresome taskand even, the company says, to do it better than TA’s can. The graders working for EduMetry, based in a Virginia …
News release: “With technology allowing nearly 24-hour media access as children and teens go about their daily lives, the amount of time young people spend with entertainment media has risen dramatically, especially among minority youth, according to a study released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Today, 8-18 year-olds devote an average of 7 hours …
News release: “A new report examines the impact immigration enforcement has on the thousands of children of undocumented immigrants, 73% of whom are U.S. citizens. This includes risks to child safety and well-being, such as the needless separation of children from parents. The report also highlights the growing challenges for state child welfare agencies that …
American Nones: The Profile of the No Religion Population – A Report Based on the American Religious Identification Survey 2008 Principal Investigators – Barry A. Kosmin & Ariela Keysar with Ryan Cragun and Juhem Navarro-Rivera “One of the most widely noted findings from the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS 2008), which was released in March …
WSJ: Track the U.S. unemployment rate since 1948 via interactive graphic and accompanying article. Related postings on financial system
“Recently Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter and V.F. contributing editor Michael Lewis sat together onstage in front of an intimate crowd at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and discussed Lewiss new book, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, which tackles the question of what caused the U.S. economy to tank. …
“Today, U.S. departments and agencies are releasing their Open Government Plans — another historic milestone in President Obama’s campaign to change Washington. For too many years, Washington has resisted the oversight of the American public, resulting in difficulties in finding information, taxpayer dollars disappearing without a trace, and lobbyists wielding undue influence. For Americans, business …
“You can support the fight against heart disease by participating in National Start! Walking Day on Wednesday, April 7. This is the day that adults nationwide can make the pledge to Start! walking and to become active and heart healthy, especially in the workplace…Walking has the lowest dropout rate of any physical activity. Its the …
News release: “The federal government defines long-term unemployment as a jobless period of six months or longer. In March 2010, over 44 percent of unemployed Americans met or exceeded that standardthe highest rate since World War II. In contrast, during the severe recession of the early 1980s, the percentage of workers unemployed for six months …
YouTube Blog: “…we’re in the midst of one of the largest redesigns in YouTube’s history: we’re simplifying the look and functionality of the video page. That’s the page you see whenever a video plays, and this redesign is about going “back to basics,” focusing attention on the reason why you came to YouTube in the …
News release: ‘Department of Justice announced today that it supports a proposal by The Associated Press (AP) to develop and operate a voluntary news registry to facilitate the licensing and Internet distribution of news content created by the AP, its members, and other news originators. The department said that the development and operation of the …
News release: “The University of Maryland and the International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL) Foundation have unveiled a new children’s reading and library application – ICDL for iPad brings to Apple’s iPad access to the world’s largest freely available collection of multi-lingual, online children’s books with titles in more than 54 languages representing 64 countries. Through …
