Perhaps no more than half of those who began a four-year bachelor’s degree program in the fall of 2006 will get that degree within six years, according to the latest projections from the Department of Education.
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Plan B - Skip College - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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Of the 30 jobs projected to grow at the fastest rate over the next decade in the United States, only seven typically require a bachelor’s degree, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Among the top 10 growing job categories, two require college degrees: accounting (a bachelor’s) and postsecondary teachers (a doctorate)
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I think there is validity to this one.
The Media Equation - Mourning Old Media's Decline - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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What do you make of this? How does it affect your future? Your students'?
Drilling Down - Letting Our Fingers Do the Talking - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Another great cell phone stat.
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The tipping point?
Papers Facing Worst Year for Ad Revenue - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Future of the newspaper looks grim.
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This is an article I have been waiting for. Interesting to start to see the future of news. Yet, I still wonder how many people are getting their news from sources other than print or TV.
Bad News for Newspapers - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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This graphic is telling about the state of the newspaper business model. What I question, a little, is the rise in profits shown at the bottom for the NYT.
Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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People are correct when they say online education will take things out the classroom. But they are wrong, I think, when they assume it will make learning an independent, personal activity. Learning has to occur in a community.”
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This is a key point in making those who feel that there are huge flaws in online learning. While there is definite potential for the "correspondence course" model they mention above to still be present, there are myriad ways in which online learning can be extremely communal. What I love about it is that it automatically eliminates pacing concerns in that students can move through material at a rate that is more to their style.
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Very interesting one.
Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com - 3 views
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This is a great budget exercise.
Can You Become a Creature of New Habits? - New York Times - 0 views
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“The first thing needed for innovation is a fascination with wonder,” says Dawna Markova, author of “The Open Mind” and an executive change consultant for Professional Thinking Partners. “But we are taught instead to ‘decide,’ just as our president calls himself ‘the Decider.’ ” She adds, however, that “to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one. A good innovational thinker is always exploring the many other possibilities.”
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This is the part that we can really instill in our students: a sense of wonder that permeates all they do. How do we do it? My idea would be to tap into their passions. What do they go for? Also, one of the jobs of schools is to expose students to things they would not normally be exposed to. This can create new habits and new wonder.
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The current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure, meaning that few of us inherently use our innovative and collaborative modes of thought.
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This is where we come in.
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I am dropping this in your mailboxes today.
Visualization Lab - 0 views
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Use NYT data and IBM's Many Eyes to visualize data from the news.
Pogue-o-matic Product Finder - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Greatest tech gadget guide ever.
Behind the Scenes: Child's-Eye View of Haiti - Lens Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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For two weeks, 28 young Haitians used their perspective as citizens to create a distinctive document: pictures of Haiti, as it regenerates, through the eyes of insiders.
How Different Groups Spend Their Day - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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can def. use this in connections
Printing The NYT Costs Twice As Much As Sending Every Subscriber A Free Kindle - 0 views
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You just have to let your kids go nuts with this one.
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While unlikely, this just jumps up at me. As Josh wrote in the diigo notes for the page, what if we did this for schools?
TimesMachine - New York Times - 0 views
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