This first-of-its-kind learning conference will help you identify policies that have been successful in other communities and could work in yours. National Housing Conference (NHC) and its research affiliate, the Center for Housing Policy is hosting the “Solutions for Working Families” Learning Conference from June 28th to 30th.
Are you a grassroots activist making a difference in your city? Are you a community leader, providing a voice for your neighbors? Are you heading an organization geared toward making change? We want to meet you! Next American City is announcing its first annual conference geared toward bringing together the next generation of urban leaders. [...]
My university, Texas A&M has floated an interesting (and controversial) proposal for bettering teaching standards – by offering a $10,000 bonus to faculty receiving favorable student evaluations. As expected, there is much consternation and the reality on the ground is that only 300 of more than 2,000 faculty members have opted in the ‘program’. Matthew [...]
Webometrics analyzes about 15,000 universities around the world and ranks 5,000 on their ‘web performance’ based on the institutions’ proclivity for a significant web presence. The criteria was determined by a weighted combination of visibility (external inlinks), size (web pages), rich files, and Google Scholar availability [via]. Their aim is to promote web publication and [...]
One of the first things I noticed when I came to the United States for my graduate education was the ubiquity of online resources. The Internet back home in India was still a novelty and its potential for educational resources was extremely limited. Questia Online Library is an example of one such online library that [...]
John Ioannidis at PLoS Medicine writes: There is increasing concern that in modern research, false findings may be the majority or even the vast majority of published research claims. However, this should not be surprising. It can be proven that most claimed research findings are false. Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution presents the basic idea [...]
Since I am currently neck deep in research design studies and formulating my research proposal, I can completely relate to this. Click image to enlarge.
University and college rankings are always disputed regardless of the methodology they employ. The U.S.News and World Report rankings is the most used and oft-cited list although it has been repeatedly rubbished by academicians and professionals. These rankings are often based on reputation which is a self-feeding circle and endowment size which also like reputation [...]
Global Cities looks at the changing faces of ten dynamic international cities: Cairo, Istanbul, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Mumbai, São Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo.
A personal account by Monty C.M Metzger from CScout Trend Consultancy. It is basically a large scale model of the capital city’s layout in preparation for the next year’s summer Olympic games. Not much of a museum.
Robyn at Cities of Theory asks a pertinent and oft-raised question – “are we training people for a profession crying out for candidates but with candidates not fitting the requirements and unable to get a job?”
Seems unlikely, eh? The Case against Homework, a book by Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish explores the myth of importance of homework towards your child’s educational outcomes. I remember being piled with homework after school and threatened with completing it before going out to play so as to “stay ahead of my classmates”. I bet [...]
[via PhD Comics: click on image to enlarge] Technorati Tags: PhD, comics, humor
WorldChanging is one site I have been reading for a long time now and can heartily recommend to anyone interested in sustainability and green technology. They have come out with their own book, complete with a foreword by Al Gore and an introduction by Bruce Sterling. Technorati Tags: green technology, sustainability, WorldChanging, books, environment, 21st [...]
I live in a college town so probably can identify with the lure of one. UConn is taking that seriously as it sets out to build a college town from scratch. Technorati Tags: college town, university, housing, city center, UConn
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