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POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CHALLENGES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
Posted on 16.12.2011 by Greg Mastel
In 2011, both the United States and the European Union struggled to recover from a severe recession and avoid clipping into a dreaded “double dip” recession. On both sides of the Atlantic, this economic stress also created political crises that continue to test governing institutions. Europe’s struggle to deal with…
The Internet by the Numbers: 2010
Posted on 14.10.2011 by John Bailey
The team over at Pingdom had their googling monkeys run some numbers on the Internet. Here's the full data overload with some highlights below: Email 107 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010. 294 billion – Average number of email messages per day. 1.88 billion…
Scholastic and the Gates Foundation Release Survey of 11,000 Teachers
Posted on 27.09.2011 by John Bailey
As part of the NBC News 2011 Education Nation , Scholastic and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation released a first look at select findings of the 2011 Primary Sources study . The complete results will be released to the public in January of 2012. A few interesting results from…
Framing Today’s Waiver Package
Posted on 23.09.2011 by David DeSchryver
Today, the United States Department of Education (ED) will release the long-awaited waiver guidance for the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). What are the key issues to monitor? First, the waiver package is, as I have stated before , a regulatory approach to advance the administration’s Race…
The Magic Formula
Posted on 23.09.2011 by Bart Wauters
In Spain, during this pre-election time, some candidates would be less nervous if they had a magic formula to predict the outcome. In the U.S.A, they already have this formula: Professor Allan Witman , of the American University in Washington, has accurately predicted the election of each U.S. President since…