Category: Articles
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Small Ideas, Big Benefits
Lean before lean was cool… “One way to grab some cash and learn valuable entrepreneurial skills along the way is to launch mini-ventures or Venturettes. Such ideas require little-to-no capital, usually last for a relatively short duration and are of nominal size.” http://johngreathouse.com/smallideas-bigbenefits/
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Alana Muller: CAPS Off to High School Students Who Embrace Entrepreneurship Early
Drop by the Blue Valley Center for Advanced Professional Studies (CAPS) any day of the week, and you’ll find a bustle of entrepreneurial activity. During the just-completed school year in this Johnson County, Kan. district, CAPS served more than 900 students. Dressed to the nines in their business attire, these…
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An Emerging Innovation in Policy Evaluation: From Theory to Practice | PA TIMES Online
Within the broad spectrum of social sciences, the world of policy is unique. There seems to be a refreshing candor here that is not found in other fields. Perhaps this is because policy people accept that the policy process involves difficult research (where the data is sometimes simply unavailable), analysis…
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NCDD Resource Center » Integrating News Media, Citizen Engagement, and Digital Platforms Towards Democratic Ends
This 5-page AmericaSpeaks report examines how we might use new forms of media, digital platforms, and citizen engagement principles to reengage the center and those who have turned out due to apathy and disgust. http://ncdd.org/rc/item/8573
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Good Governance: 10 Baldrige Questions for Your Board of Directors | Blogrige The Official Baldrige Blog
As governance board members of Baldrige Award-winning organizations have affirmed, those boards that embrace the role of ensuring responsible governance and leadership of their organizations are likely to find the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence an essential tool in this endeavor, regardless of the sector or size of the organization.…
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Designing a School Makerspace | Edutopia
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/designing-a-school-makerspace-jennifer-cooper Makerspaces, STEAM labs and fab labs are popping up in schools across the country. Makerspaces provide hands-on, creative ways to encourage students to design, experiment, build and invent as they deeply engage in science, engineering and tinkering.
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Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim
Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim #TED : http://on.ted.com/sQWW
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Time to Revisit the Public-Private Debate | PA TIMES Online
http://patimes.org/time-revisit-public-private-debate/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+patimes%2FlidQ+%28PA+TIMES+Online%29
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We Are All Connected | PA TIMES Online
Why does a negative person poison the emotions of everyone around him/her? How can a wonderfully charismatic person raise the energy, mood, and productivity of a group? Why do you laugh more at a funny movie when you’re in a theater full of laughing people? Our ability to affect others…
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