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A New Social Science? Statistics Outgrowing Other STEM Fields

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a statistical-services company based in Rockville, Maryland. Overall, the number of statistics bachelor’s degrees has grown from 526 in 2003 to 1,678 in 2013. For instance, since 2003, the number of schools granting undergraduate statistics degrees has increased from 74 to more than 110 in 2013.

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NCLB’s legacy: As the ESSA era begins, have policymakers, educators learned from the past?

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Many states either were not tracking them at all or were using widely disparate formulas that made state-by-state comparisons impossible. In a recent report, Education Week dug deep into student proficiency rates on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) from 2003 through 2015. Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J.

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ProfHacker 2015 Holiday Gift Guide

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I am also much more satisfied with their customer service than I was with the other company. So after hunting around and doing comparison reviews I purchased the 2015 Roku 2 , which is standalone, plugs into Ethernet connections and is service agnostic, which I really appreciate. I wrote a review of Reclaim Hosting earlier this year.

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Scrutiny of colleges that get billions in GI Bill money remains mired in bureaucracy

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Zovio, Ashford’s parent company, declined to discuss Baca’s case unless he signed a waiver, but generally denied assertions that it improperly told veterans they were not eligible for GI Bill benefits. Formerly Bridgepoint Education, the company now called Zovio has raised eyebrows for years. Former Sen. Photo: Scott J.

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The looming decline of the public research university

The Hechinger Report

In fact, the researchers who run this year-old, $750,000 lab at OSU’s Spine Research Institute resort often to Hollywood comparisons. That spending, in turn, produces more than 2,600 patents and 400 companies a year, according to the National Science Board. It’s a reveal reminiscent of a James Bond movie. It’s the future of the state.”

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The Politics of Education Technology

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“ Facebook Is Not a Technology Company ,” media studies professor Ian Bogost also wrote in August. If that’s what “technology” means, then every company is in the technology business – a useless distinction. …There are companies that are firmly planted in the computing sector.