Education: Interesting Stories from Forbes Magazine

Pinterest Wins Fans In Academia, Helping Users Analyze Tough Novels
Can Pinterest help college students learn? In Prof. Alicia Ellis’s literature classes, the surprising answer is yes. Students’ pins may be the digital answer to the 3 x 5 index cards that helped long-ago learners sort out complex facts and ideas.

Co-Create: Under 30 Summit In Jerusalem

Indian Families Climb Energy Ladder To Achieve Middle Class
Amrita Sen and Anupama Sen with the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies have published an insightful paper entitled “India’s Oil Demand: On the Verge of ‘Take-Off’”. The authors argue that India could be on the verge of a rapid burst in crude oil demand growth equivalent to what China experienced in the late 1990s.

The Real Costs Of Home Burglary
An astonishing two million homes are burglarized each year. And, the costs can extend past what was actually taken. You may not be able to protect against everything, but there are steps to take in order to safeguard what is most important.

This Is Why Making Your Own Video Games Leads To Quality Learning
Almost every child in the United States plays video games—91% of children ages 2-17, according to NPD. But how many kids make their own video games? I could not find any reliable statistics.

Why Do We Teach ‘Old Physics?’ Because It Works
The problem with introductory courses isn’t that classical Newtonian physics is inherently less interesting than quantum physics and relativity, but that we don’t do enough to make that material engaging.

The 25 Metro Areas With The Highest Average Student Loan Debt

The Scary Truth About Millennials And Student Loan Debt
When it comes to student loans, millennials are adopting a disturbing “out of sight, out of mind” attitude. New survey research from Citizens Bank shows that recent college grads either lack information or are choosing to remain willfully ignorant of the details surrounding their educational debt and how they’re repaying it.

10 Tips For Giving A Great Speech

Startup Schools: America’s Most Entrepreneurial Colleges

Knowledge-Driven Innovation: Knowledge Networks For Entrepreneurs
Knowledge networks are important for everyone, but especially for entrepreneurs. Social networks are just one type of knowledge network that facilitates knowledge sharing that supports entrepreneurial innovation. Several companies have established online knowledge networks for entrepreneurs to communicate with each other and and to learn from more knowledgeable individuals.

Ten Tips For Raising Your Public Speaking Game
Ten tips that show you how to make your presentations better.

Working Prototypes Vs. Ideas: Which Should Entrepreneurs Pitch?
Entrepreneurs with a new product idea must decide whether to pitch the concept or provide an actual prototype. Which works better?

How To Be A Great Entrepreneur, By Venture Capitalists

Economic Growth in MENA: The Challenge of Youth and the Imperative of Pragmatism
Two years  and half ago I wrote an article for Middle East Business and News Magazine, entitled “The Middle East Must Look East”, arguing that the Middle East should look to East Asia – South Korea, China, Taiwan, ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) – for inspiration and lessons on achieving economic growth. Forty years ago the East Asian region was totally shambolic; the cultural revolution was still raging in China and the Vietnam War was coming to an extremely brutal end as hundreds-of-thousands of ‘boat people’ escaped to seek international refuge – ultimately numbering an estimated two-million. Twenty years later the World Bank published its seminal report, The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy.

Millennial Middle East Peace Ambassadors: ‘We Don’t Have To Take Sides’
A new generation of ‘ambassadors of human culture’ are creating spaces both online and off where Israelis, Palestinians and beyond are creating a new vision of equality and prosperity.

You Say VUCA, I Say TUNA. How An Oxford University Program Helps Leaders Face A Complex World
The Oxford Scenarios Executive Education Program helps leaders manage a VUCA world of management uncertainty and turbulent business trends

Startup Schools: America’s Most Entrepreneurial Colleges

How Can Student Entrepreneurship Be Encouraged?
Entrepreneurship is increasingly attractive, but are students given enough training to turn their technical knowledge into a thriving business?

10 Tips For Giving A Great Speech

Students Aren’t Going To College To Learn, They’re Going To Network
Last week, tens of thousands of high school seniors across the country got bad news.

Tics, Bad Habits, And Infelicities: My Top Ten Peeves In Public Speaking
Avoid this little problems to be a better speaker.

Getting Past A College Rejection
Use an actor’s sensibility to get past college rejections.

Madness Does Not End in March
Richard Vedder recounts the scandals surrounding college athletics as the nation readied to watch North Carolina and Villanova go head to head.

Higher Education in Review: March 28-April 3
Michael DeBow recaps the past week in higher education news.

25 Best Value Colleges In The West 2016

Dubai Travel and Tourism

What Life Is Like For Lady Taxi Drivers Of Dubai
A glimpse into the difficult lives of two women micro-entrepreneurs in Dubai.

Only 1 In 5 Recent Law Grads Believes It Was Worth The Cost
Among other things, only 20% of recent law school graduates believe the education is worth the hefty price tag, according to a recent survey. Here’s what else they found.

Celebrity Substance: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony and Grammy award winning creator, composer and star of Broadway’s smash hit “Hamilton,” has revolutionized Broadway with his hip-hop musical about the (previously) underappreciated founding father, Secretary of the Treasury and face of the 10 dollar bill, Alexander Hamilton. He remakes the founding fathers into contemporary Americans- all are people of color. He also humanizes them, showing how fiery and petty their rivalries and debates could be in spite of their genius. Everyone from President and Michelle Obama to Dick Cheney to Beyonce have seen the show and sung its praises. In Hamilton’s life story we have a panoramic view of the history of our nation, and can clearly see the connection and affection Miranda has for Hamilton. Though there is much to learn about life from Hamilton (you will have to see the show or pick up a history book- no spoilers!) there is much to learn from Miranda’s journey as a theater geek who has gone on to have two Broadway hits. Here are a few things we can learn from Miranda’s career:

What’s The Most Popular College Application Essay Topic?
Nearly half of the college applicants who used the Common Application this year submitted an essay about their “background, identity, interest, or talent.” Only 4% of applicants using the Common App wanted to dig deep on the question of challenging a belief or idea.

College Campus Protests Include United Students Against Sweatshops
Alta Gracia is an apparel brand that is named after a factory in the Dominican Republic, which has the best wages and working conditions among garment factories in the Global South.

College Students Learning About “Living Wage” Sportswear
Alta Gracia is the anti-sweatshop, the only apparel factory known to pay a “Living Wage” (salario digno) over 300% above the legal minimum wage; maintain excellent health and safety standards; recognize a legitimate labor union and sign a collective bargaining agreement; all verified by the WRC.

A Return To St. Benedict’s Prep On ’60 Minutes’: 7 Myths About School Vouchers
Earlier this month “60 Minutes” profiled St. Benedict’s Prep School, a 148-year-old Catholic high school for boys that’s thriving in the heart of Newark, N.J. I couldn’t help but ask: Why are Democrats against allowing poor boys to attend this great school?

How To Be More Confident At Work

Dear Class, Welcome to the Real World
Keynote after keynote, article after article, research after research and experts after experts unanimously insist: the education we have no longer corresponds to the education we need.

Teach Kids About Budgeting And Take A Vacation At The Same Time
Frustrated with organizing a great vacation for you and your family? Why not make the planning part a family event? Vacations can provide important money lessons for your children and teach important life skills as well.

The Most Satisfied Business School Graduates

30 Tips For Your MBA Admissions Success
Fortune may favor the brave, but when applying to business school it is careful planning and meaningful self-reflection that win the day.

New Digital Credentials Will Bring Good Fortune (Cookies)
Although new digital credentials are bound to be much less costly than current degree offerings, I wonder whether we?re all destined to gain the educational equivalent of 10 lbs. when new digital credentials inevitably wheedle their way into the Title IV ecosystem and are as readily available as free cookies, pies and cakes. Is radical accessibility the enemy of affordability?

You’ll Never Guess The Biggest Factor In Graduate Salaries
A college education has been seen as providing a route to success for those from less privileged backgrounds, but new research has blown this aspiration out of the water.

Why Sandpaper Makes You More Empathetic And Other Communication Mysteries
We are primarily unconscious communicators.

Best Value or Best Quality?
Richard Vedder discusses the new Best Value Colleges rankings from Forbes.

14 Liberal Arts Colleges That Aren’t All White

Diversity In The Workplace Starts With Diversity In Higher Education
BY DEBORAH BIAL. – A small percentage of colleges and universities are considered elite institutions of higher education.  Degrees from these particular institutions are golden tickets, giving the recipients special access to the best opportunities in the America. Who gets the opportunity to receive these golden tickets?

Sink Or Swim: How Not To Groom Future Leaders
Forcing up-and-coming leaders to sink or swim in the pool of real experience is a sure-fire method to drown some managers who have real potential. Investing in selected high-potential leaders is crucial. Read why this investment is so important and some steps you can take to upgrade your high-potential leaders.

Teachers’ Unions Celebrate Supreme Court’s Friedrichs Decision
In a blow to teachers looking to get out of paying dues to left-leaning unions, the Supreme Court today announced a 4-4 decision in the case of Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association. The deadlock means a lower court ruling stands for now and Rebecca Friedrichs and nine fellow California teachers will have to keep paying union dues to the CTA even if they disagree with the decisions their union makes.

Best Value Colleges: East Coast Vs West Coast
It’s a geography battle when it comes to colleges. The West dominates our Value Colleges list, but how do they stack up against the Top Colleges of the East Coast? We compared the two lists so you don’t have to.

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