By Ashley A. Smith. Boston-area nonprofit will pay gang members who want to go to college and get off the street, with a goal of improving communities. Read more...
21 mai 2017
20 mai 2017
Race, Safety, Anger
By Scott Jaschik. At Colgate, students are furious over a security alert issued over a black student who was carrying a glue gun. At St. Olaf, students protest amid sense that threats against black students have not been taken seriously. More...
20 mai 2017
Yale's Notorious Yelp Reviewer Is Now on Leave
By Scott Jaschik. Yelp is a website where anyone can rate restaurants and various services, theoretically allowing others to benefit from your experiences. Of course these days, that also means plenty of reviews that share writers' biases about all kinds of things irrelevant to food being served or services provided. More...
20 mai 2017
Trump Reported to Pick Nonscientist for Top Ag Science Job
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Sam Clovis, a former Trump campaign co-chair with no science background, is reportedly the pick to lead the U.S. Agriculture Department's research section, according to reports from agriculture trade press and the investigative news site ProPublica. More...
20 mai 2017
Students Without Good Options
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Former officials raise concerns over whether for-profit law school's response to loss of federal aid funds denies students options while protecting parent institution from liability. More...
20 mai 2017
Is the college degree outdated?
Techno-News Blog. The bachelor’s degree may be the classic pass to join the world of work, but increasingly it’s no longer enough. We have entered a “prove it” economy in which codified skills are currency. More...
20 mai 2017
The godfather of ransomware returns: Locky is back and sneakier than ever
Techno-News Blog. The start of 2017 saw a sudden decline in the distribution of Locky, to such an extent that another form of ransomware — Cerber — has usurped Locky’s dominance. But after being all but written off, Locky is staging a comeback. More...
19 mai 2017
A peek into the digital future of education
Techno-News Blog. The evolution of digital education is nothing short of a revolution. We have seen educational efficacy changing digitally with each passing day. It has not only provided teachers and students unlimited teaching and learning opportunities, respectively, but also improved students’ erudition, participation in the learning process and innovation. More...
19 mai 2017
L’illusion d’un possible retour aux trente glorieuses
Par Eric Chaney. Les programmes populistes-nationalistes, de Marine Le Pen à Donald Trump ou Cinque Stelle en Italie, sont construits sur un substrat économique commun. Présupposant que la faiblesse de la croissance et le chômage viennent d’une concurrence déloyale, ils en déduisent qu’une politique protectionniste relèverait le niveau de vie des citoyens. Voir l'article...
19 mai 2017
The growth illusion behind populist platforms
Par Eric Chaney. Populist politicians, from Marine Le Pen in France to Donald Trump (when he was campaigning) and Cinque Stelle in Italy, have built their economic platforms on a common set of assumptions. They posit that sluggish growth and unemployment are caused by unfair trade and thus that erecting barriers would deliver higher national income growth. Voir l'article...
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