(Pulse) By Kevin Organisciak– I am rarely the smartest person in the room and what you are about to read is probably contrary to what most experts may be saying about brick and mortar business but, hey, sometimes the contrarian can be right (or at least helpful). There is no denying that the trend in retail is […]
Read More »(US News) By Robert Morse and Matt Mason–Now in its third year, the US News/Ratheyon STEM Index tracks key economic- and education-related science, technology, engineering and mathematics activity in the United States over time. Just like other well-known indexes — the S&P 500 Stock Index, for example, or the Consumer Price Index — the U.S. News/Raytheon […]
Read More »(Washington Post) By Nick Anderson– Now they’re pulling out the really sharp pencils. The ACT and the College Board, overseers of the nation’s two rival college admission tests, are exchanging unusually pointed words this week over an effort to help students interpret scores on the revised SAT. First, the College Board released a set of charts […]
Read More »(Washington Post) By Nick Anderson– Many college-bound students across America are celebrating this week what appear to be impressive results from the revised SAT. But in general the scores are not as strong as they seem at first glance. It turns out the new test comes with a degree of score inflation. Simply put: a […]
Read More »(Examiner ) By Nancy Griesemer. -Without fanfare or press release, last Thursday the Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success quietly launched the first two components of its new online technology—the Student Locker (a portfolio development tool) and the Collaboration Space (a platform for sharing materials). And so far, the initial response from independent educational consultants(IECs) has been largely […]
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