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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

The Hechinger Report

The advances in technology that are going to drive where the world goes in the next 50 years are going to come from other countries, because they have the intellectual capital and we don’t,” said Jim Stigler, a psychology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies the process of teaching and learning subjects including math.

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How China is Trying to Outpace the World in AI

Evelyn Learning

When a new idea or technology becomes available and shows promising usage, powerful governments run to grasp the technology and take advantage of being early adopters. The more resources and technological advancement a country has, the more influential and rich it becomes. And why not? World economics works that way.

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One Week Away! The Library 2.0 "Mental Health and Wellness" Mini-Conference.

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Recently at ALA: Chair, Status of Women in Librarianship and Chair, ALA United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Task Force developing a multi-year strategic plan for ALA. Currently at ALA: Chair, IRC United Nations Subcommittee, Chair Public Awareness Committee. Service and learning for library professionals. Losañes1,2, Analiza C.

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Library 2.0 "Mental Health and Wellness" Mini-Conference - Final List of Accepted Sessions!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Recently at ALA: Chair, Status of Women in Librarianship and Chair, ALA United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Task Force developing a multi-year strategic plan for ALA. Currently at ALA: Chair, IRC United Nations Subcommittee, Chair Public Awareness Committee. Service and learning for library professionals. Losañes1,2, Analiza C.

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Tuesday's "Mental Health and Wellness" for Library Workers - Schedule Announced!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Recently at ALA: Chair, Status of Women in Librarianship and Chair, ALA United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Task Force developing a multi-year strategic plan for ALA. Currently at ALA: Chair, IRC United Nations Subcommittee, Chair Public Awareness Committee. Bayog (student)1, Jewel Ann D. Merbal (student)1, Stephen B.

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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Some have gone to trade school, some have just gone off to get a job,” said the 20-year-old junior, who is majoring in exercise science at Virginia Commonwealth and is a mentor to fellow first-generation undergraduates. Rosa Vasquez has seen students quit already. Seventy percent said they were falling behind. That will be much harder now.

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Some Very Bad News about the UNESCO OER Recommendation

Iterating Toward Openness

This makes it illegal, for example, to write open source software for playing DVDs – even for the purposes of playing DVDs you properly purchased and legally own – because you don’t have a license to use the proprietary encryption technology for DVDs. Section II.8

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