Trita Parsi has won the 2010 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States, published in 2007 by Yale University Press. Parsi is co-founder and president of the National Iranian American Council. Grawemeyer awards, [...]
While everyone obsesses over the Ivies and Berkeley, Cal State -- the largest university system in the United States -- moves from being non-competitive to competitive on who gets in.
[...]The median salary of academic librarians in the Association of Research Libraries in the United States increased by 3.8 percent in 2008-9, to $63,673, but that gain didn't match inflation of 5.6 percent for the year, according to a new report by the association. In Canada, the median salary' [...]
Jamshed Bharucha considers the differing challenges facing higher education in India and the United States.
[...]As we celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday today in the United States, Miguel Guhlin is encouraging others to share software applications for which they are thankful. Here are my picks, both for my Mac and iPhone.
7 Mac Applications for which I’m thankful:
The chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Jim Leach, said in a speech at Washington's Press Club Friday that he would undertake a 50-state "civility tour" aimed at overcoming the divisiveness that marks so much political and other social discourse in the United States today. The tour, [...]
China and the United States on Wednesday announced a series of steps to improve relations between the two countries. One part of the joint announcement was the statement that the United States would seek to send 100,000 students to China over the coming four years. While the statement suggested [...]
Yesterday was Veteran’s Day here in the United States, and three students of Pam Henley in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, contributed videos to our statewide “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices” project which pay tribute to our Oklahoma veterans.
“In Honor of My Grandfather” was created by Laney Miller, as a [...]
A science teacher at a suburban Kansas City middle school finds himself out of a job, no thanks to the Sunshine State.
During a lesson on jet streams, Ryan Haraughty drew the East Coast of the United States with Florida a little out of proportion, if you [...]
November 11 is Armistice Day, which marks the cessation of Great War hostilities in 1918. (Here in the United States, of course, this is now Veterans Day.) In honor of the day and the dead, the First World War Poetry Digital Archive, housed at the University of Oxford, chose [...]
Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s destruction. It would’ve been easy to miss as coverage was scant.
One could talk for hours about the significance of men and women swinging sledgehammers against the Wall. If you’ve ever swung a sledge against something solid – gosh, I’m going [...]
This podcast is a reflection I recorded on a flight back to the United States from the October / November 2009 21st Century Learning Conference in Hongzhou, China. There are some issues about which I am reticent to blog, given their poliltical sensitivity in China, but want to share and [...]
A UF professor and his wife have been indicted by a federal grand jury on multiple counts of wire fraud and money laundering that stemmed from $3.7 million in contracts the couple entered into with NASA, the United States Air Force, and the Navy.
In the 71-count Indictment, the Federal Grand Jury [...]
The United States is losing ground in the world economy because of declines in educational attainment, according to a new report by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. The report cites data showing that the United States and Germany were the only two nations in which those [...]
Dennis Pierce’s May 2009 article for eSchoolNews, “Unused eRate funding totals billions,” was published in the print edition of eSchoolNews in June. The article summarizes an eRate research report covering eRate from 1998 to 2006, which found for various reasons:
…more than 25 percent of the available eRate funding [...]
Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Sunday announced that the government will develop plans for an endowment to be used to supplement the salaries of top academics, many of whom in recent years have left Israel for the United States, Haaretz reported. He said that the goal was both [...]
Three Chinese students who attend liberal arts colleges in the United States discuss their new book explaining a sector that isn't well known in their home country.
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Is federalism in the United States dead? Perhaps so.
Do you remember how the federal government strong armed the states to raise the legal drinking age to 21 back in the 1980s? They did it by withholding federal highway funds. Unless you raised your drinking [...]
