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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

163. MVCAP fyi

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"Below, check out which majors are most wanted by employers in 2011, and what percent of respondents said they would be hiring candidates with these qualifications. Are you surprised? Let us know in the comments section."

2. Where CEOs at America's Largest Companies Went to College, by Brian Burnsed - US News and World Report: http://t.co/OM3TzHV

"While usual suspects like Harvard (15 total degrees), Columbia University, and the University of Pennsylvania (seven degrees each) boast the most Fortune 100 CEO graduates, there were a few outliers that yielded multiple CEOs."


"Barbara Duffield, policy director of the Washington, DC-based National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth, told the Star Tribune: "In 2009, 47,204 college students applying for financial aid checked a box that identified themselves as homeless."

4. Schools Examine Content, Delivery of Online AP Courses, by Michelle R. Davis - http://t.co/L7SaWKY via @educationweek

‎"The College Board, which audits all AP courses and authorizes them with its stamp of approval, does not track how many students are taking those offerings online. However, nearly 18 percent of the 17,000 high schools that offer AP courses offer at least one of them as an online option."

5. Math That Moves: Schools Embrace the iPad, by Winnie Hu - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/education/05tablets.html?_r=1&hpw

“There is very little evidence that kids learn more, faster or better by using these machines,” said Larry Cuban, a professor emeritus of education at Stanford University, who believes that the money would be better spent to recruit, train and retain teachers."

6. Historians Continue to Face Tough Job Market, by Peter Schmidt - http://chronicle.com/article/Historians-Continue-to-Face/125794/

‎"The report, published in the group's Perspectives on History, a newsletter, in advance of its annual conference this week, said the number of jobs posted with the association fell by more than 29 percent—from 806 to 569—during the 2009-10 academic year. Since two years ago, when the association posted an all-time high of 1,059 job openings, the number of jobs advertised with it has dropped by more than 46 percent, to the lowest level in 25 years."

7. Minorities are now the majority at UT-Austin, by Jon Marcus and Reeve Hamilton - Hechinger Report http://t.co/7JnZQJJ

"Whites are in the minority this year for the first time in the history of the flagship Texas school, which was segregated until the 1950s. Fifty-two percent of the Class of 2014 is nonwhite. Black and Hispanic students represent about 5 percent and 23 percent, respectively. Asians account for 17 percent of freshmen. The demographic shift at U.T. is a bellwether of what is about to happen—and, with little notice, already has, at other universities in Texas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and New York—in a country where new Census figures confirm that nonwhites are by far the fastest-growing proportion of traditional-age university students."

8. Video essays are a hot topic in college admissions as more schools allow them, by Jenna Johnson - http://t.co/ZpYxGip via @washingtonpost

"A few colleges are hoping to harness that love for video and have created channels for students to submit video essays, although most schools do not accept them in place of a written one."
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