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Department of Education Exempt from Spending “Freeze”

Administration officials said they could not provide a direct comparison to current elementary and secondary education spending levels, but they said federal education spending would rise overall by 6.2 percent. That would apparently be the largest percentage increase since 2003, not counting the huge infusion from last year’s economic stimulus law.

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Highlights Only: Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Evaluation of Library Efforts to Index, Preserve and Catalog Blogs, Websites, Email Archives and Other Cyber Resources

Primary Research has published (fee-based) a new report, The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Evaluation of Library Efforts to Index, Preserve and Catalog Blogs, Websites, Email Archives and Other Cyber Resources.
…presents data on how higher education faculty in the United States and Canada view the usefulness and quality of academic library efforts to further [...]

Music Education Results in New Knowledge of Brain Workings

A new research study suggests the ability to predict future melodies in a piece of music — after the music has been disconnected — demonstrates a unique way in which the brain operates.
Scientists now predict that these expectations should be different for people with different musical experience. An article in the journal NeuroImage explains the [...]

Open Education: The Nature of Competence

Last week I wrote about Framing Curricula for Open Education .  In the past few years it has become common to describe curricula in terms of outcomes, rather than the more traditional learning objectives. On the face if it, this makes sense. Whilst learning objectives might be said to describe the teaching and learning environment [...]

Education focus of Live United Film Series event on 1

Join KLRU and United Way Capital Area for a special film screening and discussion on education issues in Austin on Thursday, January 28, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in KLRU’s Austin City Limits Studio 6A. RSVP here. Light hors d’oeuvres and beverages provided.
The discussion will take place immedately after a screening of It All Adds [...]

Highlights Only: The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Print & Electronic Library Collections of Scholarly Journals Includes Results from The US and Canada

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Print & Electronic Library Collections of Scholarly Journals” report to their offering.
“The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Print & Electronic Library Collections of Scholarly Journals” The report is based on a representative survey of more than [...]