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Restoring Trust in Government Matters | PA TIMES Online
Despite heightened rhetoric about engaging citizens, improving customer satisfaction and restoring public trust in government, little significant success in doing so is evident today especially when we focus on the passage of the fiscal measure passed late on January 1 by Congress after more than 500 days of debate. This…
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10 Reasons to Consider BYOD in Education
Education must move with the times. What can be done to reach a technology-savvy generation that relies on media every free second of their time? BYOD-Bring Your Own Device, a trend that is catching on quickly. Bring Your Own Device has transformed the classroom by creating new opportunities for learning.…
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Insights on the Road to Performance Excellence
A well-known poem by Robert Frost, “Mending Walls,” contains the famous line “Good fences make good neighbors.” This is also how a 2011 blog post on productive partnerships begins. The blogger pointed out that, while fences might support neighbors’ relationships, they don’t serve partnerships well at all. I have been…
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Mentors: Time-honored, yet forever unsung heroes
Why does it feel so natural, even wonderful, to some of us to take a younger soul, a “protégé,” under our wings? Everyone knows that a mentor can profoundly affect your destiny. This world is no meritocracy. No matter how hard you work, without access to cultural capital, youll bump…
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If You Want to Lead, Read These 10 Books – Whitney Johnson – Harvard Business Review
While part of me cries “unfair” more than I would like it to, this is Johns list, and he gets to recommend as he chooses. What actually concerns me — and I hope you as well — is that in his canon of leadership books there are no womens voices,…
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Yong Zhao: PBL Develops Students Creative Confidence | Edutopia
Meanwhile, he added, the U.S. is focusing on the wrong goal by aiming for higher standardized test scores. “Fixing the horse wagon wont get us to the moon,” he said, referring to the current educational system as a holdover from an outdated era. Emphasizing test scores over creativity will undermine…
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High-end College Courses, For Free
While K-12 virtual schools for K-12 students are fairly new, online courses for college students are quite common. Now a new company called Coursera is aiming to offer high-end, online college courses to everyone, for free. For more information and thoughts on how this new trend could impact public education,…
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State High School Exit Exams: A Policy in Transition, by Shelby McIntosh at the Center on Education Policy
CEP’s 11th annual report on state high school exit exams finds that states are embracing higher standards on their exit exams, which means schools and students will feel the impact. The report, based on data collected from state education department personnel in 45 states, discusses the present status of state…
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Are You Sure You’re Not a Bad Boss? – Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman – Harvard Business Review
When we analyzed the behavior of 30,000 managers, as seen through the eyes of some 300,000 of their peers, direct reports, and bosses on 360-degree evaluations, we found that the sins of the bad boss are far more often those of omission, not commission. That is, bad bosses are defined…
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For Those Who Want to Lead, Read – John Coleman – Harvard Business Review
The leadership benefits of reading are wide-ranging. Evidence suggests reading can improve intelligence and lead to innovation and insight. Some studies have shown, for example, that reading makes you smarter through “a larger vocabulary and more world knowledge in addition to the abstract reasoning skills.” Reading — whether Wikipedia, Michael…
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