The educated and conservative think fatness is a choice
After the post on fatness and homophobia I decided to query the GSS on the extent to which people think that fatness has a strong biological element, similar to homosexuality. There’s a variable,...
View ArticleWithout Education, Fewer Jobs Available; Without Help, Fewer will be Educated...
This post may read like a sermon. (But, it’s the weekend, so maybe that is ok). But it is actually a very serious business post. If we keep failing to make decisions that help lift the neediest among...
View ArticleThe most educated generation in Quebec’s history
Quebec need a new “Quebec model” and it’s to its highly educated youth that it should look Translation Select LanguageAfrikaansAlbanianArabicArmenianAzerbaijaniBasqueBelarusianBulgarianCatalanChinese...
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An educated choice? Obama vs. Romney | Constitution Daily
Typically, national elections provide a choice between competing sides and ideas. In terms of educational policy and this upcoming national election, there are more commonalities than differences....
View ArticleSustainabiliTank: The Denver Debate between two Harvard Educated Men –...
The Harvard Law Review, generally considered the most prestigious in the country, elected the first black president in its 104-year history today. The job is considered the highest student position at...
View ArticleWhat a Quagmire: An Increasingly Educated Society is Stuck in the Mud of Loan...
A record 33% of the nation’s 25- to 29-year-olds have earned at least a four-year degree, up from 28% in 2001 and 2006 and 17% in 1971, says the report by the non-profit Pew Research Center. It’s...
View ArticleThe Educated Reporter: Is Public School Activist’s Status as Private School...
There are plenty of education activists who aren’t also parents of school-aged children. But when parents opt for private school, does that diminish their standing as advocates for public education?...
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Israel Ranks Among Top Educated Countries Worldwide
Other countries ranked within the top 10 list are Japan, the United States, New Zealand, South Korea, Norway, the United Kingdom, Australia and Finland. According to 24/7 Wall Street, which analyzed...
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Record Share of New Mothers are College Educated | Pew Social & Demographic...
Rising Educational Attainment of New Mothers In 2011, fully 83% of new mothers had at least a high school diploma when they gave birth. Only 17% did not finish high school. Almost one-fourth (23%) had...
View ArticleThe Educated Reporter: Guest Post: Stanford Ed School Dean Claude Steele on...
EWA’s 66th National Seminar, held at Stanford University, took place earlier this month. We asked some of the journalists attending to contribute posts from the sessions. The majority of the content...
View ArticleThe Educated Reporter: What Parents Want to Know About School Choice: Tips...
Later in the session, Robinson and Jackson added to the list of top concerns they hear from parents: the school’s location, the kinds of extracurricular activities it offers, the accessibility of its...
View ArticleThe Educated Reporter: Guest Post: Ten Tips From Gordon Commission on the...
They were brought together by the Educational Testing Service, and for two years explored the future of testing. Earlier this year, they issued their report and recommendations.As Ed Week’s Sarah...
View ArticleThe Educated Reporter: Guest Post: What Online Education Means for College...
“There’s a tsunami coming,” Stanford president John Hennessy famously warned last spring in a New Yorker profile on how Silicon Valley, with all its Stanford-pedigreed entrepreneurs, is transforming...
View ArticleSchool of stock: who cares where FTSE 100 bosses were educated?
Here’s an exam question for you. FTSE 100 chief executives are split equally between those educated privately and those who went to a state school. A new government imposes a radical system compelling...
View ArticleHow to Be an Educated Consumer of Infographics: David Byrne on the...
by Maria Popova Cultivating the ability to experience the “geeky rapture” of metaphorical thinking and pattern recognition. As an appreciator of the art of visual storytelling by way of good...
View ArticleFree school meal pupils outnumbered 4:1 by privately educated at grammars
England’s 164 grammar schools are four times more likely to admit private school children than those on free school meals, a report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has revealed. The report,...
View ArticleIslamic Society Review (Refer): Former Prime Minister criticises the...
The dominance of a private-school educated elite and well-heeled middle class in the “upper echelons” of public life in Britain is “truly shocking”, Sir John Major has said.The former Conservative...
View ArticleThe Educated Reporter: Higher Ed Beat: What Are the Top 10 Stories on College...
I’ll admit it – I look forward every fall when Scott Jaschik shares his “cheat sheet”of story ideas at EWA’s annual Higher Education Seminar. This year we met at Northeastern University, and Scott...
View ArticleThe Educated Reporter: Guest Post: Innovations in Classroom Technology
With lawmakers on both sides of the aisle touting the value of a computer science education, and President Obama using a video message to urge every American to learn how to code, it seemed like the...
View ArticleWHAT EVERY EDUCATED CITIZEN OF THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW—-WORLD...
The Greek word for ‘comedy’ (κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) derives from the words for ‘revel’ and ‘song’ (kōmos and ōdē) and according to Aristotle comic drama actually developed from song. The first, official...
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