Daily reCCAP: 02/07/12
many universities may bankrupt themselves by clinging to an
educational approach that confuses lecturing with learning and
protects highly paid, tenured faculties and administrators from a
tsunami of technological change that soon will deliver
transformational learning at a fraction of today’s costs.There’s a word for business models that have high and increasing fixed
costs, and are faced by disruptive strategies that offer better
results at a lower price. That word is “doomed.”
George J. Borjas, Kirk B. Doran
It has been difficult to open up the black box of knowledge
production. We use unique international data on the publications,
citations, and affiliations of mathematicians to examine the impact of
a large post-1992 influx of Soviet mathematicians on the productivity
of their American counterparts. We find a negative productivity effect
on those mathematicians whose research overlapped with that of the
Soviets… Although the total product of the pre-existing American
mathematicians shrank, the Soviet contribution to American mathematics
filled in the gap. However, there is no evidence that the Soviets
greatly increased the size of the “mathematics pie.”Beat Generals – Fl Studio Video Tutorials & Drums – This Converts!!
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Gregory F. Branch, Eric A. Hanushek, Steven G. Rivkin
Schools provide an especially rich environment for studying the impact
of public sector management, not only because of the hypothesized
importance of leadership but also because of the plentiful achievement
data that provide information on institutional outcomes. Outcome-based
estimates of principal value-added to student achievement reveal
significant variation in principal quality that appears to be larger
for high-poverty schools
One justification for public support of higher education is that
prospective students, particularly those from underprivileged groups,
lack complete information about the costs and benefits of a college
degree. Beyond financial considerations, students may also lack
information about what they need to do academically to prepare for and
successfully complete college. Yet until recently, college aid
programs have typically paid little attention to students' information
constraints, and the complexity of some programs can exacerbate the
problem. This chapter describes the information problems facing
prospective students as well as their consequences, drawing upon
economic theory and empirical evidence.