Here’s an artice that explains well why Congress should get the national government out of the radio and TV business. A taste: NPR’s defenders would respond indignantly to this argument by […]
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In the first of several posts on the AAAS meetings held this month in Washington, DC, Simone Lewis-Koskinen reports on a panel at the conference that encouraged scientists to “communicate […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about my previous two posts regarding Drs. Willard Daggett and Ruby Payne. Both make a great deal of money and have built mini-empires out of […]
New research indicates that the disease starts in one area and spreads all over the brain. Could these findings inform efforts to develop a vaccine?
Eyewitness accounts and twitter messages on the ground in Japan reveal rising desperation and frustration with the media.
This is an amazing four-minute machinima film showing the 3-D re-creation of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” in Second Life. A big hat tip to Mitch Wagner of Information Week […]
In a wide-ranging interview on business strategy and the particular challenges posed by hyper-competition, Richard D’Aveni of Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business explains the importance of being able to import […]
Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal published a book review of Year Million, a collection of essays by 14 prominent futurists and thinkers who collectively ponder the fate of […]
Smart phones will empower the tourists of the future, acting as their expert personal interpreters and translation shades that can instantly decipher text in foreign languages.
Terry Moe and John Chubb say… n A. “The average technology score [from Education Week’s Technology Counts 2008] drops as union membership grows. . . . technology seems to be […]
Terry Moe and John Chubb say… n n The fact that [technology] offers enormous benefits is not enough to guarantee that it will be embraced by the public schools and […]
If you’d like to know what a good statewide 21st century school leadership development program looks like, have we got a podcast for you! This morning we had Episode 6 […]
I often hear educators say… We could be teaching differently if it weren’t for ‘the tests.’ Or… We could do a better job of meeting our students’ needs if it […]
Over the past few years, I mentioned several times to Keith Krueger, CEO of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) , that CoSN was a great organization for larger districts […]
The benefits of ongoing progress monitoring of students on essential academic skills (i.e., “power standards“) are well established. But, as Sherman Dorn notes , some school districts are starting to […]
The abolition of the sex trades will only happen when countries eliminate (as opposed to relocate) demand for sex workers.
Indian executives pride themselves on things that set their country apart from China: democracy, a reliable legal framework for investors and a widespread command of English.
Individuals, corporations and government organizations are sitting on vast treasure troves of archived data that can be branded and then digitized as tiny propaganda across the Web to support their own agendas.
This was bound to happen, sooner or later. All the media buzz around the innovative new brand of economics known as “Freakonomics” (after the best-selling book of the same name) […]
The fallibility of eye-witness memory is well documented. But what about people’s memories of their own past intentions? This is an issue in memory research with real-life implications.
In September 2007 I profiled a book that I had purchased called The 21st Century Principal. In that post, I noted the extreme paucity of content related to digital technologies, […]
The American School of Bombay (ASB) in Mumbai, India is hosting a 1:1 laptop computing conference in February 2010. While the conference is aimed at other international schools, it should be […]
Is anyone else feeling a bit overwhelmed by all of the information available here at NECC? It’s bad enough when we’re at home, but the focused concentration of all of […]
I had a great trip to San Antonio. It was fun hanging out with Miguel Friday afternoon and evening. As you can see, we are not above making idiots of […]
I’ve been laying low for a few days, giving Did YounKnow? 2.0 the opportunity to get some traction. So far, so good,nalthough I don’t expect it to get as much […]
Miguel challenged us to find new voices. Over the next week and a half, I will profile eight bloggers that I’ve found informative and intriguing. Most represent a leadership perspective. […]
A nation’s economy can be divided into different sectors. nn If you took away technology from the primary sector (raw goods) of our economy agriculture, mining, forestry, farming, fishing, […]
Last week I had the opportunity to moderate a world-class panel here on campus featuring AU film professor Larry Engel, science education advocate Eugenie Scott, and National Academies science education […]
Why do virtually all men over the age of 90 develop some amount of prostate cancer whereas heart cancer is practically unheard of?
The Web of the immediate future is one that is increasingly visual, empathetic and design-centric. If it had a gender, it would be female.