By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. MacArthur Foundation Launches $25 Million Nonprofit to Inherit Education Projects
Tony Wan, EdSurge, 2015/10/14
The list of projects emcompassed by the foundation's new 'non-profit' is interesting. The first project inherits work from the 'Cities of Learning' project. LRNG “is creating a 21st century ecosystem of learning that combines in-school, out-of-school, work-based, and online learning opportunities that are visible and accessible to all.” More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. US Department of Education Opens Financial Aid to Students in ‘Bootcamps’ and Non-Institutional Programs
Tony Wan, EdSurge, 2015/10/14
The American government has announced a new program to connect alternative education initiatives such as MOOCs and EdCamps with traditional education providers. More...
By Bruce A. Heyman. Abraham Lincoln said the best way to predict your future is to create it. I have found this creative spirit ingrained in the people I meet every day across our great shared continent. Canadians and Americans believe that we, as individuals and as a community, have the ability and the obligation to leave things better than we found them. As the people privileged to call these two countries home, we can and must create our own future. More...
By Shawna Wagman. Carleton University students would have a tough time ignoring the presence of the bright yellow bench in their main quad. And that’s the point. The vividly painted bench, installed in September, is meant to be a daily visual reminder for students to open up and talk about mental health issues. More...
A group of New York inmates have out-debated Harvard University's team – the top-ranked club in the world, reports the BBC. Read more...
Published by American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA, 2015. Download the PDF.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Section 1
An Overview of State Funding for Higher Education
Section 2
The Decline in State Funding
Section 3
Public Research Universities Have Been Hit Harder than Public Higher Education in General
Section 4
Looking Forward: Prospects for the Future
Conclusion
Appendix
State Spending on Public Higher Education per Full-Time Equivalent Student Varies by More than Sixfold. More...
Sur le blog My Polemploi Store. C’est l’une des anomalies de l’actuelle reprise économique aux Etats-Unis, qui alimente les hésitations de la Réserve fédérale (Fed) sur le relèvement de ses taux d’intérêt, à l’issue de la réunion de son Comité de politique monétaire des 16 et 17 septembre. En dépit d’un taux de chômage flatteur, à seulement 5,1 %, le marché du travail continue à montrer des signes de faiblesse. Théoriquement, le pays est en situation de plein-emploi. La réalité est plus compliquée. Voir l'article...
By Eric Stoller. Yesterday, another campus shooting took place. Twitter was flooded with posts about Umpqua Community College and news reports told the story of yet another mass shooting in America. Read more...
The U.S. Senate failed to take action on a last-ditch effort to renew the federal Perkins Loan program, letting the program lapse. Read more...
Multiple people were killed or injured this afternoon by a shooter at Umpqua Community College, which is located in Roseburg, Ore. Read more...
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