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9/24/10
TechNews for the week: September 24; September 22; September 20;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Obama envisions no major changes in Afghan strategy; Afghans prepare for elections; turnout low amid violence; Nostalgia For Taliban Rule, Islamic Law;
Combat Brigade in Afghanistan accused of killing civilians for sport; Father: Army Ignored Complaints Of Afghan Slayings;
Woodward: Generals in civilian posts were toughest critics of surge; Secret, CIA-run Afghan army taking the fight against al-Qaeda into Pakistan;
Tea Party candidate says Hitler invented separation of church and state; Tea party picking up steam nationwide;
How O'Donnell won: Rise in faith activism tips scales in Del.;
Closer look at the details of The GOP's 'Pledge to America'; GOP already breaks its 'Pledge to America';
McCain gets testy with reporters after ‘don’t ask’ vote;
Major New Health Reform Benefits Take Effect Today;
Mayor and ex-city manager of the Los Angeles suburb arrested in Calif. scandal;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web design issues
Other news
Police manipulate crime statistics and make illegal arrests: in Act two; Inside NYPD 81st Precinct;
Conservatives attempt to rewrite the history of the civil-rights movement;
Publisher agrees to remove details from Book at Request of U.S. Department of Defense;
Meghan McCain skips college speack, heads to Vegas to party;
Finance and Economics
Older Unemployed Increasingly Fear Never Returning To Workforce; Digging Out of Student Debt;
Opinion: The rich angry about paying more taxes; Fearing a soaring deficit, many analysts favor letting Bush tax cuts expire;
Ally Financial legal issue with foreclosures may affect other mortgage companies;
National Bureau of Economic Research says Recession Ended in June 2009;
House lawmakers close to net neutrality bill;
IBM patent on laptop computer;
Education:
Need For Remediation In College On The Rise; Note to Cheating Students: Expensive 'Essay Mills' Don't Produce Grade-A Work;
College-educated Americans More Likely Experience Job Satisfaction, Lead Healthier Lives; Education Pays, but How Much?;
Lumina Report Describes How Far States Have to Go to Meet College-Completion Goals; A Federal Impediment to Quicker Degrees;
College of Charleston becomes poster child for college gender gap;
The Impact of a Rigorous High School Curriculum; 'Waiting for Superman': the next hard-hitting documentary about education;
Crises in college leadership; Holding Presidents Accountable for Learning;
Study: Poor Science Education Hampers US Economic Leadership; Republican Agenda Would Cut Education Spending;
Anger Over Raise for U.Kentucky President, oops a "reclassification"; Former Administrator at U.Michigan Faces Fraud Charge;
Major Pledge to Duke U. Is Still Unpaid After 7 Years;
Berkeley to Cut Another 200 Jobs; For-profit education companies shop for accrediation;
How to use your class website to teach; Flip Your Instruction with Flip Video Cameras;
Athletics Fees are Hard to find;
U. Minnesota Ordered to Pay $1 Million to Coach It Didn't Hire; Nebraska and Colorado to Pay Millions to Bolt Big 12;
College football coaches try balancing job, health; Colleges Struggle to Protect Athletes From Concussion and Its Aftermath;
NCAA Strikes Another Deal With Turner Sports; New Challenge to Bowl Championship System Playoff;
U Tennessee-Chattanooga in NCAA Trouble over Text Messages;
9/17/10
TechNews for the week: September 17; September 15; September 13;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Colombian paramilitaries extradited to the U.S., where cases are sealed;
Karzai rift prompts U.S. to reevaluate anti-corruption strategy in Afghanistan;
Senate Republicans unveil plan to make Bush tax cuts permanent; GOP tax proposal; Census data: 1 in 7 Americans live in poverty;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web design issues
Other news
The 10 best Android smartphones;
Microsoft Changes Policy Over Russian Crackdown;
Washington Post Leadership series: Building consensus and solid results; keeping employees engaged;
Finance and Economics
Global bankers agree to new capital reserve rules; Report: AIG, government discuss bailout repayment;
Jobless are straining Social Security's disability benefits program; The 10 American Industries That May Never Recover;
The skinny on Net neutrality;
Ruling Sets Limits on Resales of Software;
Education:
Report: For the first time More women than men in U.S. earned doctorates; Employers Favor State Schools for Hires;
'Times Higher Education' Releases New World University Rankings;
Higher Education Costs Rise Only 0.9 Percent In 2010;
Another report on 'Gainful Employment' and College Career Assn objections; For-Profits Give Thousands to Politicians Who Oppose 'Gainful Employment' Rule;
Texas A&M's Bottom-Line Ratings of Professors Find That Most Are Cost-Effective; Texas Tech Provost Wants For-Profit Faculty Rosters;
Princeton Review Finds Engineering Students Spend Most Time Studying; Average SAT scores hold steady;
Survey Details States' Systems for Collecting Student Data; Commentary: Should We Abolish Colleges of Education?
College Portals: What Prospective Students Want; Do Students Listen to Others' Views? Student report they use streaming videos in lieu of class attendance;
Twenty-one Skype resources for education; Open-Source Lecture Capture; Grockit in Google Apps: Social learning environment for education;
New Target for Texas Education Board: Islamic History;
Twelve Rules for New Administrators; Half-Truths on a J-School; At Texas Southern Anger Over Painted-Over Murals;
Judge Upholds NYU's Denial of Business Degree to Student in Insider-Trading Case; Chancellor of U. of New Orleans Is Ousted;
USC-Beaufort Adds Computational Science Program;
Ohio State Hires Former South Carolina President as Top Fund Raiser;
After a Reprieve, Talk of Sports Cuts Is Back on the Table; U Florida: 57 victories, 2 national titles, 30 players arrested under Myers;
Kennesaw State U. Aims for Football in 2014;
9/10/10
TechNews for the week: September 10; September 8;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Karzai urges Afghans not to panic as bank withdrawals accelerate ; Afghan police beat back mob of government workers at Kabul Bank branch;
Karzai's brother financed Dubai property purchases through embattled Kabul Bank; Karzai to limit role of U.S. corruption investigators;
US raygun jumbo jet fails to beam down test missile;
Report: US must deal with domestic radical problem;
Judge: Judge: Military's ban on gays is unconstitutional;
Pentagon aims to buy entire first printing of memoir by former Defense Intelligence Agency officer;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web design issues
Other news
Washington Post's On Leadership series: Favorite Books on leadership; What It Takes to Be a Good Mayor;
30% of overweight Americans think they're in normal range;
Finance and Economics
State-Owned Banks as a Way to Rebuild the Housing and Real Estate Markets; The bleak truth about unemployment;
The privateers of education – How banks collude with the government to inflate college costs;
Taxes: What people forget about Reagan; Health insurers plan rate hikes;
Court Says iTunes Songs Licensed, Not Purchased;
Education:
Some Experts Say College May Be A Bad Investment; One-Third Of US College Grads Working Low-Skilled Jobs;
Mark Taylor on Crisis on Campus; Study questions Relationship between Economic Growth and STEM Enrolment;
Colleges are buying land they don't yet need; Will More Colleges Adopt No-Growth Policies?
More schools consider trading state support for freedom to raise tuition; Alabama schools turn to bank loans to operate;
AAUP to Universities: Tenure Is Not Just for Researchers; U. of Iowa Goes on Adjunct Hiring Binge;
Survey: Many College Boards do not understand how student learning is assessed; Assessment Projects From Hell;
Amid Endowment Bust, Money Managers Got Booming Raises;
Federal Judge Finds Former College President Personally Liable in Student-Conduct Case;
Professors at U. of North Texas Are Required to Put in Daily Hours on Campus;
Should Political Science Be Relevant?
Teaching With Technology: panel discussion; U-Va. phone app a big hit;
Knight Commission report: "Restoring the Balance: Dollars, Values and the Future of College Sports";
Top 14 NCAA Executives Pay Totaled Nearly $6-Million Last Year; In NCAA Investigations, Lawyers Are at the Ready;
College Athletes Outpace Pros in Arrests;
For First Time in 36 Years, NCAA Punishes an Ivy;
9/3/10
TechNews for the week: September 1; August 30;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Karzai fires Graft-Fighting Prosecutor; Top Karzai aide says U.S. must alter its strategy; Afghanistan's Central Bank takes control of top private bank;
Nervous Afghans pull money from Kabul Bank, raising fears; Karzai's brother calls for U.S. to shore up Kabul Bank;
Dangers of war persist for soldiers left in Iraq;
Pentagon Considers Preemptive Cybersecurity Strikes; Cyber-Offence the New Cyber-Defense: some say its stupid;
Florida Supreme Court voters can’t strip down Obama health-care bill;
Another rig explodes off La. coast; oil spreading;
Unemployment rate climbs to 9.6 percent;
Alaski GOP squabble: Joe Miller compares Murkowski third-party bid to prostitution;
Security, Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web design issues
Other news
Crash of Va. computer network exposes vulnerability of modern interconnected computer networks;
India Postpones BlackBerry Ban for 60 Days;
Washington Post Leadership series:
Finance and Economics
Income Inequality and Financial Crises; Does Income Inequality Lead to Financial Crisis?
In the recession how We Save (and Spend);
More than half-dozen states suing health care law also claim health subsidies;
Bernanke: Shut down banks if they threaten system; SEC won't pursue fraud case against Moody's; Former Lehman Brothers CEO blames Fed for Lehman's collapse;
How illegal immigrants are helping Social Security;
Who owns the phone?
Education:
30 Ways to Rate a College; Three Reasons Why College Is So Expensive;
Political Scientists warn Public Higher Education Is 'Eroding From All Sides';
Texas A&M System Will Rate Professors Based on Their Bottom-Line Value;
States Don't Report Enough on How They've Spent Stimulus Money on Education; Illinois's Public Universities Won't Have to Borrow -- for Now;
Education Dept. Ranks Near Bottom in Survey of Federal Workplaces; Distrust of Administration at U New Mexico;
U. of California Retirement Fund Faces $20B Shortfall; Senator Wants For-Profit Colleges to Share Default Risk;
Cars...and College Textbooks business models; Moving to all E-books; Students face new textbook picks: Rent vs. buy, print vs. e-book;
Advice: Who's 'Really Ready' for college? How do we know students are learning;
Teaching Tips: Assigning Students to Small Groups; One more way to use Twitter to communicate with students;
Will athletic departments Refocus on Financial Restraint? Athletic budgets expand as universities cut faculty and budgets;
Beyond Television Revenue: Nebraska and Conference Realignment; Ohio State, Michigan in separate divisions, rivalry will still conclude regular season;