By Elizabeth Redden. Bill would seek to slash legal immigration levels in half. And while graduates of U.S. universities would get an edge in obtaining employment-based green cards, the number of green cards available would not increase. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. Cambridge press agrees to block access in China to more than 300 articles from a key journal for scholarship on the nation. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. A new report from the National Association for College Admission Counseling looks at the challenges high school counselors face in advising international students on their college choices and argues that counselors need more training to better address the needs of the growing pool of international students at U.S. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. A statistical analysis of factors influencing voter preferences in the 2016 Brexit referendum found higher education to be “the predominant factor dividing the nation.” A new article published in the journal World Development estimated that an increase of about 3 percent in the number of adults accessing higher education in England and Wales could have reversed the results of the referendum, in which voters voted by a 51.9 to 48.1 percent margin in favor of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. A new report focuses attention on the growing pool of international students at American high schools -- many of whom hope to continue their education at American colleges. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. Civil rights groups argue “anti-Israel boycott” bill would violate First Amendment rights, while supporters say the bill is narrowly tailored and represents a minor amendment to current law. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. About 100 immigration law professors signed a letter to President Trump arguing “that the executive branch has legal authority to implement” the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. More...
What Theory is Not
Robert I. Sutton; Barry M. Staw, Administrative Science Quarterly, 2015/12/24
Useful post from 1995 that every aspiring writer should read. It outlines five things theories are not (education writers should especially take note), offers a solid definition of a theory, and offers several arguments against theories. Here are the things theories are not:
So what is a theory. More...
Why No One Really Wants Creativity
Barry M. Straw, Foundations of Creativity, 2015/12/24
The media and popular press lead us to celebrate the innovative and creative, but few would want such people in their organization, much less to be one themselves, writes Barry M. Straw. More...
Complex Project Manager Competency Standards
International Centre for Complex Project Manage ment (ICCPM), 2015/12/24
Scott Johnson dropped this 2012 post into my new OLDaily Facebook page (100 page PDF). More...
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