tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1249150 2009-11-09T01:32:03-05:00 Aurelie Thiele on current affairs. TypePad ATOBEhttp://feedburner.google.com tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83454ca1869e20120a6649d23970b 2009-11-09T01:32:03-05:00 2009-11-09T01:32:03-05:00

I recently finished reading "Hollowing out the middle: The rural brain drain and what it means for America" by Patrick Carr and Maria Kefalas. It is a thin book (172 pages without counting the lengthy notes and references at the end) which raises as many questions as it answers, but...

Aurelie Thiele tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83454ca1869e20120a65350f3970b 2009-11-04T12:51:30-05:00 2009-11-04T12:51:30-05:00

PhD Comics usually makes me laugh, but the latest strips struck a darker note. They are apparently based on the author's real-life experience at the detention facility at Heathrow Airport. Please read for yourself: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. Thankfully, the story has a happy ending. For a...

Aurelie Thiele tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83454ca1869e20120a6a056b3970c 2009-11-02T11:10:47-05:00 2009-11-02T11:10:14-05:00

The November 2009 issue of Harvard Business Review has an insightful article by Robert Pozen on fair-value accounting, adapted from his book "Too big to save? How to fix the US financial system," which will be hitting the bookstores early next week. (Pozen chaired the SEC's Advisory Committee on Improvements...

Aurelie Thiele tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83454ca1869e20120a61bf932970b 2009-10-25T09:31:00-04:00 2009-10-24T20:39:57-04:00

The September/October 2009 issue of Scientific American Mind has an article on how "recent studies from neuroscience and psychology suggest ways to improve science education in the U.S." ("A new vision for teaching science," by J. Randy McGinnis and Deborah Roberts-Harris) The authors quote the results of the 2006 Program...

Aurelie Thiele tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83454ca1869e20120a61c23b2970b 2009-10-24T23:09:12-04:00 2009-10-24T23:09:12-04:00

The New York Times ran an article in late August about a new trend in education: letting middle school students decide which books they want to read in class ("A new assignment: pick books you like", August 29, 2009, by Motoko Rich). The students do not choose books for the...

Aurelie Thiele tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83454ca1869e20120a60b9d35970b 2009-10-20T23:35:19-04:00 2009-10-20T23:34:44-04:00

Paul Krugman has an insightful op-ed in the October 8 issue of the New York Times, entitled "The Uneducated American." He argues that America's economic success is linked to the quality of its educational system; the funding of public education, however, has suffered from "the view that any and all...

Aurelie Thiele tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83454ca1869e20120a5eed3e1970b 2009-10-16T22:41:13-04:00 2009-10-16T22:43:03-04:00

I read the op-ed "Wall Street Smarts" in the New York Times this morning, where Calvin Trillin recalls a conversation he recently had at a bar with a gentleman who offered to give him the reason "why the financial system nearly collapsed in the fall of 2008." The reason can...

Aurelie Thiele tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83454ca1869e20120a5ddbd69970b 2009-10-15T11:08:00-04:00 2009-10-15T11:08:00-04:00

(Today's post is a re-run of a post I wrote as a blogger for the INFORMS annual meeting in San Diego.) I attended the semi-plenary by MIT’s Richard Larson this (Sunday) afternoon, on an initiative, called BLOSSOMS, that he recently started with other educators using funding provided by the Hewlett-Packard...

Aurelie Thiele tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83454ca1869e20120a5d54454970b 2009-10-10T07:20:00-04:00 2009-10-10T07:20:00-04:00

The Economist has a very positive article about Pittsburgh's transition from steel town on the decline to vibrant city of the twenty-first century in its September 17th edition. While the article was written as background to the G20 summit (which took place in Pittsburgh around the same time), it is...

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