President Bush congratulated the 2007 Presidential Scholars and called on Congress to reauthorize No Child Left Behind this year. More: continued here

There is a great deal of information on adjunct faculty in the education literature. A search conducted on ERIC in April 2005 returned over 600 matching articles. Limiting this search to higher education still netted 379 hits. The articles examine adjunct faculty from many different viewpoints and topics. These include articles on the statistical number [...]

I am now at the i3 conference Information: Interactions and Impact (i3) conference being held 25 – 28 June 2007, at the The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. It’s been a wet time here in the UK, and I’m just hoping that my house in Sheffield isn’t a victim of the floods (it’s up a [...]

Attraverso un recente articolo sull’ International Journal of Web Based Communities 2007 – Vol. 3, No.2 pp. 183 – 197 intitolato Supporting learning communities for children on Think.comVeniamo a conoscenza del progetto Think.com della Oracle Education FoundationSi tratta di uno spazio di apprendimento collaborativo pensato per essere usato nelle scuole, sotto la guida [...] (Source: biblioragazzi) [...]

Information literacy is something that we are very keen on here in the library and we’re always looking for ways to get the word out. That’s why we’re please to announce the re-launch of our Babson Library Information Literacy Blog. It’s the source for tips, ideas, news, and just about anything else related [...] (Source: [...]

Information overload remains a serious issue for many (information) professionals. At a recent knowledge management (KM) conference in New York sponsored by WestKM and Recommind, I presented a paper on the topic of information overload. I discussed three main aspects:1) The History of Information Overload2) The Negative Impact of Information Overload3) KM Tips and Techniques [...]

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Library & Information ServicesScience and Health Sciences Librarian (two positions) DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES:  The science and health sciences librarian works in a collaborative environment and reports to the director of user services, who reports to the Dean of Library and Information Services.  The person collaborates closely with the other science and health [...]

Inside Higher Ed :: A Provost and Librarian Walk Into a Meeting…"it’s becoming less important for librarians to brag in meetings with provosts about the number of books and periodicals they have in their collection, and more important to emphasize how they are helping students with information literacy" (Source: See Also… a library weblog by [...]

reported by Darren Clarke, LiteracyNews.comSixteen grade 5 and 6 students from the west to the east coast of Canada are now published authors, coming out tops in this year’s GMAC Great Canadian Writing Contest. Close to 1,900 students competed in the national, bilingual contest, made possible by founding sponsor General Motors Acceptance Corporation of Canada, [...]

reported by Caroline Murphy, LiteracyNews.comTaken together, functional brain scans and tests of reading skills strongly predict which children will have ongoing reading problems. What?s more, the two methods work better together than either one alone, according to new research in the June issue of Behavioral Neuroscience, which is published by the American Psychological Association (APA).Neuroscientists [...]