Extracted 19SEP2011 from http://www.economist.com/node/21529013?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/thehorsebeforethecart ...Nowadays, everyone wants to measure outcomes. The most prominent American charter schools, strongly focused on getting poor children into co...

Extracted 19SEP2011 from http://www.economist.com/node/21529014?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/thegreatschoolsrevolution In many countries education is at the forefront of political debate, and reformers desperate to improve their national performance are draw...

See e.g., http://www.nytimes.com/pages/education/index.html [Curator's comment: The popular press increasingly is reflecting the ubiquitous circumstances of need with respect to K-16 education and life-long learning. There are lots of interesting ...

Extracted 09SEP2011 from http://socialmediatoday.com/leighdow/353138/want-evangelists-get-community-st... Sometimes we get calls from clients looking for "buzz'" via social channels. Social is great for generating viral "buzz", but for many compan...

Extracted 07SEP2011 from http://blogs.worldbank.org/education/node/647?cid=EXT_TWBN_D_EXT EdStats, the World Bank's free database for global education statistics, has launched EdStats StatPlanet -- an exciting new data visualization and mapping da...

Extracted 06SEP2011 from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/sunday/do-happier-people-work-harde... Teresa Amabile, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Steven Kramer, an independent researcher, are the authors of “The Progress Princi...

Seehttp://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_lehrer?currentPage=all There is a reason why it takes many years of arduous work and dedication to become a scientist. Rest assured, the scientific cognoscenti have long understood tha...

Extracted 31AUG2011 from http://www.economist.com/node/21526915?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/workersandbusinessunite Mr Obama will.. reiterate his commitment to workforce training, which helps people polish their skills, or acquire new ones, through speciali...

Extracted 31AUG2011 from http://logisticsviewpoints.com/2011/08/31/whats-missing-i-your-2012-budget/ by Adrian Gonzalez, August 31st, 2011 Almost 52 percent of the supply chain executives I surveyed earlier this year do not include leadership deve...

Extracted 22AUG2011 from http://mashable.com/2011/08/22/khan-academy-kno/?utm_source=feedburner&ut... The 12-minute video lectures that Bill Gates has called “the start of a revolution” will now be linked with the material in some digital textbook...

Extracted 12AUG2011 from https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Marketing/Digital_Marketing/Measuring_the_v... New McKinsey research estimates the impact of Internet search in the global economy, pinpointing the sources of value and the beneficiaries.

Extracted 12AUG2011 from http://www.e-agriculture.org/news/mobiles-enrich-training-agricultural-cooper... A mobile learning toolkit that contains an overview of mobile learning, 15 mobile learning methods and a selection of tools that can be used ...

Extracted 09AUG2011 from http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/08/its_the_leadership_stupid.html key point: how small actions lead to big outcomes As Barry Posner and Jim Kouzes point out in Credibility, "The entire economic system is based on trust; it is...

Extracted 09AUG2011 from http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/08/innovative_companies_demand_in.html by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen During our study we learned that a leader's everyday actions are one of the most powerful signals to ...

Extracted 09AUG2011 fromhttp://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/08/learn_to_speak_the_three_langu.html Compelling leaders, as Aristotle might say, have three qualities that they express through three "languages": Agility (or "Logos"). This language is about ...

See video podcast at http://blogs.hbr.org/video/2011/08/the-power-of-progress.html Teresa Amabile, Harvard Business School professor and coauthor of The Progress Principle, explains the importance of small wins at work.

Extracted 09AUG2011 from http://mashable.com/2011/08/08/facebook-education-engagement-study/ ...study to be published in Computers & Education... The survey of 2,368 university students looked at how 14 specific behaviors on Facebook – commenting ...

Extracted 28JUL2011 from http://blogs.worldbank.org/education/node/642?cid=EXT_TWBN_D_EXT At the launch of the World Bank's new Education Strategy for 2020 during the "What Works in Education” Policy Research Colloquium this spring, World Bank Pre...

Extracted 27JUL2011 from https://community.oecd.org/community/educationtoday/blog/2011/07/26/korea-s-c... Posted by Minister Ju-Ho Lee on Jul 26, 2011 9:06:25 AM Smart Education is a customized learning system that enhances the capacity of learner...

Extracted 20JUL2011 from http://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/coping-with-information-overload-w... Submitted by Adam Wagstaff on Tue, 2011-07-19 14:26 A post on the blog "Let's Talk Devleopment." Hosted by Justin Yifu Lin, Chief Economist a...