Class Time Increases In 5 States In Effort To Improve U.S. Public Education. WASHINGTON — Open your notebooks and sharpen your pencils.
School for thousands of public school students is about to get quite a bit longer. Five states were to announce Monday that they will add at least 300 hours of learning time to the calendar in some schools starting in 2013. Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Tennessee will take part in the initiative, which is intended to boost student achievement and make U.S. schools more competitive on a global level. The three-year pilot program will affect almost 20,000 students in 40 schools, with long-term hopes of expanding the program to include additional schools – especially those that serve low-income communities.
Schools, working in concert with districts, parents and teachers, will decide whether to make the school day longer, add more days to the school year or both. But not everyone agrees that shorter school days are to blame. Online: National Center on Time & Learning: No Jobs for New Scientists. Where Do College Grads Want to Work? Recent college graduates may have just entered the work force, but that isn’t stopping them from having high expectations when it comes to their job search.
According to new research, Google was the most desired employer for business and information technology students. The company was also fourth on the list for engineering students and students with other majors. While Google was the top choice among business and IT majors, NASA was the most desired place to work for engineering students. Among students majoring in liberal arts, education and humanities, working at the Walt Disney Co. was the top choice. Apple was also top choice among students from all majors. The survey of nearly 60,000 undergraduates also revealed that undergraduates were most concerned about job security and work-life balance as they begin their job search. . [7 Ways to Improve Your Work-Life Balance] "This is a huge topic," Kortney Kutsop, employer branding specialist at Universum, said. White Collars Turn Blue. When looking backward, you must always be prepared to make allowances: it is unfair to blame late-20th-century observers for their failure to foresee everything about the century to come.
Long-term social forecasting is an inexact science even now, and in 1996 the founders of modern nonlinear socioeconomics were obscure graduate students. Still, many people understood that the major forces driving economic change would be the continuing advance of digital technology and the spread of economic development throughout the world; in that sense, there were no big surprises. The puzzle is why the pundits of the time completely misjudged the consequences of those changes. Perhaps the best way to describe the flawed vision of fin de siecle futurists is to say that, with few exceptions, they expected the coming of an ''immaculate'' economy -- one in which people would be largely emancipated from any grubby involvement with the physical world.
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