On the Agenda – Week 09, 2013
Take 1 – #ISTP2013
@Schleicher_edu: Teachers for the 21st Century: Using Evaluation to Improve Teaching: Background report for International Teacher’s Summit
@arneduncan: Business leaders get it, just like parents do: Preschool is the smartest investment we can make
@fareedzakaria: Obama’s proposal to expand early-childhood education is vitally important for upward mobility
Take 2 – Students
@Universityworldnews: Bavaria to scrap tuition fees
@Esutwt: What can we do to enhance students’ representation in dictatorschip Belarus?
@yahoofinance: Since 1997, the total value of student loans has ballooned over 800%, from $92 billion to $833 billion
Take 3 – R&D
@SmithsonianMag: Dying stars could lead us to life: researchers devised a way to search for oxygen in the atmosphere of exoplanets
@AAUniversities: Starvation diet: A severe approach to slashing US spending bodes ill for the research enterprise.
@Metode_Eng: TedTalk on Deconstructing stereotypes: the myth of the (girl) scientist
…and this week on ScienceGuideEU
@ScienceGuideEU: TED prize for Indian Cloud-School
@ScienceGuideEU: English only doesn’t find you a job
