By Scott Jaschik. Newly released documents suggest that what has been portrayed as a dispute about the state law restricting abortion may be about a donor's demands over a law school. More...
4 juillet 2019
4 juillet 2019
Is College Worth It? Yes
By Scott Jaschik. New study shows that, from a financial standpoint alone, earning a bachelor's degree is on average a sound investment. More...
4 juillet 2019
M.B.A. Rankings Seen as Influential and Unreliable
By Scott Jaschik. A new global survey of M.B.A. "stakeholders" -- defined as those who are students, alumni, educators and employers -- finds evidence of why many business school leaders care so much about M.B.A. rankings, and also why the rankings are so frustrating to many educators. More...
4 juillet 2019
Security Compromised on Biology SAT?
By Scott Jaschik. The National Center for Fair & Open Testing, a group that has long criticized standardized tests and pointed to security problems on them, revealed Thursday that it had received a call with information about questions on the SAT subject test in biology given June 1. More...
4 juillet 2019
Should Colleges Reveal How Many Donor Children They Admit?
By Scott Jaschik. Key senator offers plan to require colleges to report on those admitted and to bar consideration of donor status in admissions process. Organization of college fund-raisers opposes bill. More...
4 juillet 2019
Référentiels d'activités, de compétences et d'évaluation
France Compétences a publié une nouvelle note pour éclairer les organismes qui souhaitent demander l'enregistrement de leur certification dans un répertoire national (RNCP ou répertoire spécifique). Elle vise à favoriser la qualité des référentiels d'activités, de compétences et d'évaluation qui sont examinés pour cet enregistrement. Plus...4 juillet 2019
Separate Data and Formatting with Microformats
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Jack D Herrington[Edit][Delete]: Separate Data and Formatting with Microformats, IBM developerWorks [Edit][Delete]IBM DeveloperWorks [Edit][Delete] July 12, 2006
Nice article that not only describes microformats but also provides some PHP code that allows you to convert from microformats to XML and back again. How would this be useful? You could write a short script that gathers the book reviews written by James McGee recently. More...
4 juillet 2019
Thoughts About the $100 Laptop Project
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Alfred Thompson[Edit][Delete]: Thoughts About the $100 Laptop Project, Computer Science Teacher [Edit][Delete] July 12, 2006
So what does Microsoft think of the $100 laptop project, especially given that the computers will use Linux operating systems. This blog post isn't an official response, but as it comes from a Microsoft staffer we can get an insight into how they may feel. And how they feel, in a word, is critical. The Linux system, he writes, "has an amazingly poorly designed user interface that is unnecessarily complex". More...
4 juillet 2019
Escaping the Prison
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Dave Pollard[Edit][Delete]: Escaping the Prison, How to Save the World [Edit][Delete]How To Save The World [Edit][Delete]How To Save the World [Edit][Delete] July 12, 2006
My most recent book review is of Doris Lessing's Prisons We Choose to Live Inside, and so it is appropriate that Dave Pollard brings us this post summarizing how to escape the prisons. Based on David Edwards's 1995 book, Burning All Illusions, the advice (a bit long, but worth it) is as follows:
- Be mindful. Watch what's happening and why.
- Be self-aware. Pay attention to what you're doing and why.
- Be open-minded. Don't prejudge. Listen.
- Accept responsibility. Don't blame victims.
- Think critically. Question what you read and hear.
- Refuse to self-censor.
- Reject simple, comforting answers.
- Don't compromise. The 'lesser of two evils' is a slippery slope.
- Refuse to hate; don't be provoked into hating or scapegoating.
- Reduce your dependence, so you can voice your criticisms.
- Disobey. Constantly challenge authority, ask questions, say and do what others fear to.
- Learn, especially from experience; sidestep the filters.
- Don't rationalize. Don't be seduced into believing something just because you want to.
- Celebrate your uniqueness: Don't just be everyone else.
- Love yourself. Don't depend on others' attention or approval.
- Wonder. Imagine. Be free of the need for certainty. More...
4 juillet 2019
Ten Trends That Matter to Business
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Ross Mayfield[Edit][Delete]: Ten Trends That Matter to Business, July 12, 2006
These trends probably matter to other people too but if you're trying to make a living these days you have to appeal to 'business' (whatever that is). Perhaps that explains item number 2, 'overburdened public sector'. As though you could just wave your have and make health and pension costs go away? And perhaps by business responsibility becomes number 6, 'social cost'. "Business has never been loved, but there is a different tone, fueled by tech and edu." Perhaps most important is not the demographic shifts or the shortages of resource. More...
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