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This study focused on the flows of the international economy as they affect the prospects for economic growth in this country, with particular attention to the effects on employment and income of advancing technology and the rise of countries that can offer high skills at low wages. The study addressed eight areas, in the following sequence: * Estimated the contributions of education and innovation (such as patents, R&D spending) to U.S. and global economic growth * Analyzed the relationship between education and access to middle-class status since 1967 and projected to 2012 * Projected the supply and demand for education in the United States to 2012 * Analyzed the relationship between educational attainment and occupational competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities, work styles, work contexts, values, and interests) based on the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Information Network (O*Net) data * Measured educational adequacy against criteria that included employability and middle-class jobs * Estimated the vulnerability of U.S. jobs to offshoring based on the characteristics of the jobs and the skills of current job holders, as reported in O*Net * Estimated the stock and growth of the global supply of educated workers

from Silvia Tolisano's Langwitches Blog - She shares the "Skype Jobs" of her students for when they get ready to conduct a Skype call.

"# The FSF advocates for free software ideals as outlined in the Free Software Definition, works for adoption of free software and free media formats, and organizes activist campaigns against threats to user freedom like Windows 7, Apple's iPhone and OS X, DRM on ebooks and movies, and software patents. # We drive development of the GNU operating system and maintain a list of high-priority free software projects to promote replacements for common proprietary applications. # We build and update resources useful for the free software community like the Free Software and Hardware Directories, and the free software jobs board. We also provide licenses for free software developers to share their code, including the GNU General Public License."

While this is elementary in nature, this search engine does a nice job of retrieving sites that are appropriate and provides graphics at the very top of the search return.

Find educators for your subject area or job title. This list includes all areas, including counselors and administrators.

There's a "disconnect" between school administrators and parents. While more than half of America's school principal's said they think they're "doing a good job" preparing students for the 21st century, only a third of parents of middle school and high school students agreed, according to research released by Project Tomorrow and Blackboard.

"The purpose of Life on Minimum Wage is for students to recognize how difficult it is to save money when your only job(s) pay minimum wage without benefits. "

Career site for primary age students.

A wiki with interview questions for various types of educational technology positions with some links to other sites.