Do you have to be anti-change to be pro-business? A few months ago, I heard an interview with one of the leading metal baseball bat manufacturers. They were lobbying hard against regulations that would require little league players to use wood bats. Today, Chris point us to this story about emissions. The car makers continue to lobby hard, or…
Monthly Archives December 2007
91.2% of Class Time in Their Seats. USA Today is reporting on a new comprehensive study of elementary school classrooms that is being published in this week’s Science magazine. Aside from not being overly engaged, the study of over 2,500 classrooms showed that “The typical child in the USA stands only a one-in-14 chance of having a consistently rich, supportive…
the future of the organisation lies in working with local corporations to create unique training courses.
High-Impact Leadership' Symposium to be Held on April 13 http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=1848
Working it Out. Do you think that women do more total work (market and household) than men? If so, then the good news is that you’re in the company of most economists, including those from elite universities. The bad news is, you’re wrong. Total Work, Gender and Social Norms Michael Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Philippe Weil Using time-diary data from…
According to reports, TEACHING students would not graduate from university unless they passed national skills tests, under a Labor plan to improve literacy and numeracy in Australian schools. Source: Labor plan to lift skills of teachers. Theage.com.au
Reconfiguring government-public engagements: enhancing the communicative power of citizens. This working paper considers the implications of emerging trends in online communication, such as social networking tools and blogs, for governmental engagement with the public. [Creative Economy : Topic Articles]
Crisis in Darfur - The Google Effect. The new Crisis in Darfur layer, which was pushed out into Google Earth on Monday night (as first reported here), was formally announced on Tuesday in Washington, DC by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google. Google has featured this layer as a new default layer (turned on when you first bring up…
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