by Sarah Green | Sep 14, 2015 | News
The 2010s have seen a massive leap in the number of tech and software companies getting on-board the education bus. This year, Facebook is the latest of these. On Thursday September 3rd, just as schools all over the country were starting or preparing to open, the...
by Sarah Green | Sep 14, 2015 | News
In 2009 Oliver Williamson won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his analysis of economic governance. Williamson works at a highly theoretical level in economics sciences. His groundbreaking work was allowed, in large part, because of his career in academia, which gave...
by Sarah Green | Sep 9, 2015 | News
Linda Darling-Hammond has been one of the key advocates for education for much of her career. She has taught students, testified in front of Congresses at the state and national level, and was an adviser to President Barack Obama during his first campaign and the...
by Sarah Green | Sep 8, 2015 | News, Teacher Issues
Good news for working parents: according to a new study from Norway, putting kids in day care doesn’t make them more aggressive. Starting the 1980s, as more and more middle-class women in Europe and North America started working outside the home, a number of studies...
by Sarah Green | Sep 4, 2015 | News
Western economic engagement and cultural rapprochement is strong in East and South East Asia, the Americas, Europe, South Asia, and the Middle East. However, our financial and business worlds are often blind to the promise of Africa. We need to fix that. And there is...