Home-schooling enrolls more than 2 million students.
Public charter schools are a hot topic and have been growing rapidly. They enroll more than 2 million students. Research papers on them proliferate. Editorials worry over what this exodus of kids and their involved parents is doing to regular public schools.
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The “nones” are far from godless. Many pray, believe in God and have regular spiritual routines.
One in five U.S. adults say they are not part of a traditional religious denomination, new data from the Pew Research Center show, evidence of an unprecedented reshuffling of Americans’ spiritual identities that is shaking up fields from charity to politics.
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Shared decision making helps patients be better informed about their treatment choices and make better decisions.
Quality-improving and cost-cutting innovations don’t sit around for years while people keep muddling through with old technology in most industries. When an innovation is ready for widespread use, it disrupts the market, whether the market wants it or not. In the process, some entrepreneur usually makes a killing.
Don’t be surprised when your toddler can operate your laptop. There’s a rise in IQ levels all around.
James R. Flynn explains how he came to understand how our minds have gained in cognitive skills during the 20th century in an excerpt from his new book, Are We Getting Smarter? Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century.
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Companies trade In hunch-based hiring for computer modeling.
When the Xerox Corp. was looking for workers to staff its call centers they used to pay lots of attention to applicants who had done the job before. Then, a computer program told the printer and outsourcing company that experience doesn’t matter.
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One of the characteristics of the modern media age is that we are surrounded by vast clouds of rapidly changing information, whether it’s blog posts or news stories or Twitter and Facebook updates. That’s great if you like real-time content, but there is a not-so-hidden flaw — namely, that you can’t step into the same stream twice, as Heraclitus put it. In other words, much of that information may (and probably will) disappear as new information replaces it, and small pieces of history wind up getting lost. According to a recent study, which looked at links shared through Twitter about news events like the Arab Spring revolutions in the Middle East, this could be turning into a substantial problem.
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The new Middle East
There are remarkable and little-reported-on tech startup communities in the Middle East – from Cairo to Amman to Beirut to Dubai – and no one is rocking this scene more than the women entrepreneurs.
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South Dakota School of Mines and & Technology
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology graduates are earning more money than Harvard University graduates after a decade-long commodity bull market created shortages of workers and minerals.
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An estimated 3 million patients visit urgent cares each week.
In Annapolis, when Emily Auerswald and her children need care for minor illnesses or injuries, they head to a shopping center that has a Starbucks, a Five Guys hamburger joint and an urgent care center. Doctors Express, an urgent care center, is open nights and weekends, and accepts walk-ins without an appointment.
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Complaints about doctors jumped by 69% in three years.
In the UK, the number of complaints made to the General Medical Council about doctors has risen 23% in the past year, the regulator says. The GMC report showed there were 8,781 in 2011 compared to 7,153 in 2010.
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If Facebook can persuade that silent majority to become more engaged in the site its future looks pretty bright.
Facebook is a pretty divisive company. One group took to the the social network, sharing their lives in updates and shifting a good portion of their social interactions onto Facebook’s sprawling social graph. The other group took the opposite direction, avoiding the site entirely, or canceling their accounts, or griping as they came to endure Facebook as a necessary evil of being online.
Continue reading… “Facebook’s silent majority holds the key to the company’s future”
On Thursday, the New York City Board of Health voted to ban the sale of sugary soft drinks larger than 16 ounces at restaurants. This is a move that has sparked intense debate between public health advocates and beverage industry lobbyists. When did sodas get so big in the first place?
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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