Yes, if you want to improve something, you must ask the right questions. How do you ask the right questions about making a community’s high school effective? Find effective schools that resemble your demographics and implement their strategies. Regardless of their plans, all of the nation’s young people need high-level knowledge and skills to achieve success in a rapidly changing world of technological advances and international competitiveness. And every American has a stake in their success, whether they have school-age children of their own or not. |
children of their own or not.
How effective is your community’s high school in educating its students?
You don’t have to be a school superintendent or member of Congress to help the six million students most at risk of failing to graduate from high school. Drawing from the work of leading researchers and educators from around the country, the Alliance for Excellent Education has identified ten key elements that every high school should have in place to ensure that all its students are successful. The list includes challenging classes, a safe learning environment, and skilled teachers. Read more at all4ed.org |
A variety of mathematical models have been developed to help law enforcement find lawless hotspots that can develop once a crime has happened.
This is excellent research, and it seems to me that police and other agencies could benefit from using the data. View a video showing how math modeling is used to understand crime spikes. |
What causes a crime wave and what measures should law enforcement use to reduce the spread of criminal offense? Researchers at UCLA and the University of California, Irvine, who are funded by the Human and Social Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation, say they may have an answer. |
Bertozzi’s conclusions come from research involving a system of mathematical equations that uses empirical evidence for how repeat offenders move and mix in society, as well as how they choose their targets. She and her colleagues report their findings this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. |
| The models “provide a useful framework in which to investigate the formation of crime patterns and the impact of alternative policing strategies on crime hotspot stability,”Read more at www.nsf.gov |
This is an excellent portrayal of the new archetype of learning: student centered, team oriented and driven by real life problems or projects. This type of learning is at the far end of the Sutman scale.
Thanks to @teromakatero from my Plurk network for this link.
Thought Update: I've discovered that my amplogs don't always go to Clipmarks when I use Chrome. I checked and all cookies are allowed. What's up Google? I want my Amplify!
This is amazing, and I’m wondering why the student put up with this. Surely this must have been a setup event. Math professors don’t normally have liquid Nitrogen in their classes, nor do they have easy access to the substance. We are a culture in flux, and many cannot adapt.
The intersection of human, sail and electric power to extend the range of the kayak. The world’s first tribrid – human-sail-electric watercraft range |
The evolution of the sailcraft has been underway for thousands of years but March could well become the significant point at which sailpower begins to merge with other energy forms to create a suite of harnessed energies when the history books are written 1000 years from now … and the electric announcement continues Hobie’s design and innovation ethic which has a sixty year tradition of creating brand new markets globally, something it has done half a dozen times with a remarkably good batting average . |
The key to the entire hybrid and tribrid kayak capabilitiy from Hobie is its new eVOLVE™ electric drive. |
In announcing the new drive, Hobie’s CEO noted that Hobie intends to “stay ahead of the curve and work with partners like Torqeedo to devise products that enhance kayaking, fishing, and sailing experiences of our customers.” Read more at www.gizmag.com |
Every military advance needs a compensating philosophical and ethical advance, or we we may doom the very culture we hope to protect. We, as a nation, can’t afford to let our primitive brain to overcome the evolved one. If we do, what will separate us from the other radicals? LC3 is conceived as an autonomous support pack-robot for ground troops (Image: Boston Dynamics) |
Walking quadrupeds are being cast to play a major role in the rapidly unfolding age of robotics. The platform promises versatility far beyond that of wheeled-vehicles and will undoubtedly find applications in a wide variety of fields. Not surprisingly, the development of quadrupeds is being driven by the military and DARPA has recently boosted its efforts by awarding Boston Dynamics $32 million for the prototype phase of its Legged Squad Support System (LS3) program. |
LC3 is conceived as an autonomous support pack-robot for ground troops that can carry 400 pounds or more of payload, sustain itself for 24 hours and cover 20 miles in almost any kind of terrain. |
| To achieve this versatility over terrain where wheeled vehicles can’t go, the goal is to develop different gaits |
Scientists have studied photosynthetic and similar natural processes that have resulted in breakthrough results such as these. Dr. Henry Daniell has developed a cheap way to produce ethanol from waste materials (Image: Jacque Brund) |
University of Central Florida professor Henry Daniell developed a technique with the U.S. Department of Agriculture that uses plant-derived enzyme cocktails to break down orange peels and other waste materials into sugar, which is then fermented into ethanol. The breakthrough can also be applied to several non-food products including sugarcane, switchgrass and straw. |
Daniell’s team cloned genes from wood-rotting fungi or bacteria and produced enzymes in tobacco plants. Tobacco was chosen as an ideal system for enzyme production because it is not a food crop and it produces large amounts of energy per acre. Producing these enzymes in tobacco instead of manufacturing synthetic versions could reduce the cost of production by a thousand times, which should significantly reduce the cost of making ethanol, Daniell said. Read more at www.gizmag.com |
Let’s examine the convergence of neuroscience with our historical human products like music and art. Presented by the Library’s Music Division and the Science, Technology and
Business Division, through the generous support of the Dana Foundation.
Project Chair, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, Psychologist and Professor of Psychiatry,
Mood Disorders Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. |
“In music one must think with the heart and
feel with the brain.”
– GEORGE SZELL
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October 2008 opens a thought-provoking two-year cycle of lectures and special
presentations at the Library of Congress that highlights an explosion of
new research on music and the brain. Kay Redfield Jamison convenes scientists
and scholars, composers, performers, theorists, physicians, psychologists,
and other experts, under the auspices of the Library’s Music Division
and Science, Technology and Business Division. All events in the series
are free and open to the public. No tickets are required, but seating is
limited, and early arrival is advised. Read more at www.loc.gov |
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