Topic: Educational Services Sector

Gimme an F!

- Washington spends $16,698 per student, the second highest in the country after Boston, yet: - In 2007, 61% of D.C.'s fourth graders scored below basic level in reading, and 51% below basic in math. - Of America's 100 largest ...READ»

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About leslyeabrutyn1970

Dr. Leslye Abrutyn is a highly regarded professional in the primary, secondary, post-secondary, and graduate-level community of schools, both in Philadelphia and nationwide. Dr. Leslye Abrutyn’s Educational Credentials and ...READ»

Campuses Scramble to Go Green--Sustainability Report Cards Rate Them

College sustainability report cards are coming out faster than we can report on them, with rankings from the Princeton Review, the Sierra Club, and now Green Report Card. They all aim to guide future college students in their quests ...READ»

The Pepsi Public School System: Marketers on the Playground?

Across the nation, parents are indoctrinating themselves into low-carb cults by the ton. While Moms and Dads are off at work (ordering ruebens "with extra corned beef, hold the bread!" on their lunch breaks), their kids are at school ...READ»

Education: Does Money Talk?

What motivates workers to exceed their duties? Or to stay in their current positions when equally or even more promising opportunities may exist? The idealistic answer is "love of the job" -- and most people who do both these things ...READ»

The Top 10 Greenest U.S Universities

If you asked high school seniors 15 years ago whether sustainability mattered in their college decision-making process, few would answer in the affirmative. But as green-ness and sustainability continue to seep into the public ...READ»

Entrepreneurship: Not So Fast, China

This morning the web is abuzz with some news out of Beijing. Apparently the Chinese index of entrepreneurial confidence (which I think needs an acronym) is still soaring in the third quarter of 2007. It registered no statistically ...READ»

Class Actions

Michelle Rhee's overhaul of the D.C. school system is the latest entry in a long history of attempts to improve public education in the U.S. Some highlights:READ»

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Social Networking Evades Schools

A recent survey from the National School Boards Association found that most schools don't have policies regarding the use of social networking sites. Prior to the association's annual Technology + Learning conference, an e-mail ...READ»

Spreading the Educational Wealth

The global economy demands that lifelong learning spread beyond the industrialized world.READ»

Sun plans open source push

Sun has thrown its weight behind this month's Software freedome day 2008 and called the firms and consumers alike to embrace open source. Sun is calling on the open source community and its own staff to cooperate in a global ...READ»

The Promise of Fast Education

B. Joseph White Dean of the University of Michigan Business School The education provided by the world's top business schools is truly the tip of the global-educational iceberg. How can the riches available at the top be distributed ...READ»