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Secretary Napolitano Announces the Launch of Study in the States Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton today announced a new initiative to streamline the international student visa process for foreign students seeking to study in the United States. The Study in the States initiative is a […]
Title: The Condition of Education 2011 Source: U.S. Department of Education The Condition of Education 2011 summarizes important developments and trends in education using the latest available data. The report presents 50 indicators on the status and condition of education, in addition to a closer look at postsecondary education by institutional level and control. The […]
New Evidence Summary: "There are Discipline-Based Differences in Authors' Perceptions Towards Open Access Publishing"
Academic Libraries, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing, School Libraries
|This new evidence summary appears in the September, 2011 issue of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice. Author: Lisa Shen (Reference Librarian, Sam Houston St. University) A Review Of: Coonin, B., & Younce, L. M. (2010). Publishing in open access education journals: The authors’ perspectives. Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 29, 118-132. doi:10.1080/01639261003742181 Abstract Objective […]
Online Game – Counties Work NACo, together with iCivics, has created an online game, “Counties Work,” to educate students, grades 6 through 12, about the important role and functions of county government by letting them run their own county. A curriculum and web quest has also been developed to assist teachers with preparing lessons on […]
Direct to OECD Indicators 2011 (Free) The 2011 edition of Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries’ performance. It provides a broad array of comparable indicators on education systems and represents the consensus of professional thinking on how to measure the current state of education […]
"Liquidator Donates Thousands of Borders Books to Chicago Public Schools"
Academic Libraries, Jobs, News, Publishing, School Libraries
|From the AnnArbor.com Northbrook, Il.-based Hilco Trading LLC announced today that it had donated “academic quality books” worth about $130,000 to Chicago schools. More than 8,000 books — which Hilco had to buy from the Borders estate — “were hand-selected” from the 399 stores Borders is closing as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy liquidation, […]
Direct to New U.S. Census Report: Education and Synthetic Work-Life Earnings (18 Pages; PDF) From the Report Summary: According to a new U.S. Census Bureau study, education levels had more effect on earnings over a 40-year span in the workforce than any other demographic factor, such as gender, race and Hispanic origin. For example, a […]
Economics Professors’ Favorite Economic Thinkers, Journals, and Blogs (along with Party and Policy Views)
Academic Libraries, Journal Articles, Resources, School Libraries
|Economics Professors’ Favorite Economic Thinkers, Journals, and Blogs (along with Party and Policy Views) (PDF) We sent a survey to economics professors through out the United States, and 299 returned a completed survey. The survey asked about favorites in the following areas: economic thinkers who wrote prior to the twentieth century of the twentieth century, […]
The Digital Revolution and Higher Education By Kim Parker, Amanda Lenhart, Kathleen Moore Report Also Available in PDF (29 Pages) Below is a summary of key findings: The Value of Online Learning. The public and college presidents differ over the educational value of online courses. Only 29% of the public says online courses offer an […]
From the Intro of The Mindset List 2015: This year’s entering college class of 2015 was born just as the Internet took everyone onto the information highway and as Amazon began its relentless flow of books and everything else into their lives. Members of this year’s freshman class, most of them born in 1993, are […]