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Glass Flooring America
As the level of inequality in the US rises to levels not seen since the Great Depression, there has been interest in the lack of upward mobility for the current generation. Less attention has been […]
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Assessment
Changing Norms for Grad School Testing
Following in the footsteps of Princeton and other elite institutions, Brown University announced that 24 graduate programs would eliminate the GRE test as an admission requirement. The Brown announcement is an interesting window into shifting […]
Recipes
Creamy Chicken Marsala
Creamy Chicken Marsala […]
Distance Learning
One Future for Online Learning
Writing in the Harvard Business Review, Leah Belsky, Senior Vice President at Coursera, sketches a future for online learning that includes institutions of higher education at the center of a global shared learning ecosystem. This […]
Assessment
Why Is Peer Help on Exam Prep Cheating?
An interesting case from the University of Texas at Austin reported in the October 4, 2019 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education (p. A28) calls attention to shifting ideas about cheating prompted by new […]
Lab Notes
What Makes Agile Work?
Adopting agile work practices requires a serious investment of time and attention as does maintaining and strengthening an agile workplace culture of support. But is the effort worthwhile? A column in Forbes reviews some recent […]
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Vegetable Lentil Soup
Vegetable Lentil Soup […]
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Agile Governance
With the pace of change accelerating and technologies growing to global scale more rapidly than ever before, and with those emerging technologies carrying political implications, interest in more agile approaches to policy making appears to […]
Data Analytics Research
Data for No Good
According to the Washington Post Editorial Board, China has turned its Xinjiang province into a zone of repression where a variety of data science techniques and types of data are being combined to create the ultimate […]
Data Analytics Research
Getting Beyond Faster Horses
Discussions about innovation and end users for products and services often include some mention of a now famous adage typically attributed to Henry Ford which goes something like “If I had asked people what they […]