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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

School Education : Learning & Teaching 11-10



Education is beyond the transcript and grades. Affinity and Creativity should transcend too.  A way to do it... 

How to lead the student from the wrong answer to the correct one? 

This Word Has Zero Meaning—Yet, You Probably Already Used it Today

1st-Grader With No Hands Wins National Handwriting Contest

Post secondary Success America as 100 college students


Design Thinking Students Co-designing Their Own School for the Sake of Empathy


The Result of Design Thinking Students Designing Their Own School: EmpathicEducation for a Compassionate Nation 


D-STEM: Applying design thinking to STEM in academia and industry


DYSLEXIC WHO .... STUDENT OR THE TEACHER ????? YES I MEAN IT.


More schools, more challenging assignments add up to higher IQ scores


The Science of Resilience


Gender Differences in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Interest, Credits Earned



Is your degree worth it?


Indian startup shows how the cloud can be used to transform education in rural India


How to Get Your Students to Come to Class Prepared 

Lessons From the Frontier: How to Make Blended Learning Truly Work


Rich School, Poor School


Teachers: Have This Conversation Before You Collaborate

Study: Teachers Have Lower Expectations of Children From 


Seven Mistakes to Avoid When Writing Multiple-Choice Questions


SAT Scores and Income Inequality: How Wealthier Kids Rank Higher


Growth Mindset: Personal Accountability and Reflection


Student Level of Happiness and GPA, Is there a co-relation.

Lessons From the Frontier: How to Make Blended Learning Truly Work

Four Ways to Spot a Great Teacher

Is Blended Learning the Magic Bullet for Struggling Students?
















Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Net Impact Social Impact Ranking for colleges 09-16


Top 25 Of 2012 Net Impact Social Impact Ranking


2014 Rank & SchoolIndex Score2013 RankDegree Options
  1. Presidio Graduate School, San Francisco, CA4.733Full-time, Part-time
  2. Yale School of Management, New Haven, CT4.713Full-time, EMBA
  3. University of Michigan (Ross), Ann Arbor, MI4.675Full-time, Part-time,EMBA
  3. Bainbridge Graduate Institute (Pinchot), Seattle, WA4.679Full-time, Part-time
  5. Duke University (Fuqua), Durham, NC4.55NAFull-time, EMBA
  5. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO4.558Full-time, Part-time, EMBA
  7. UC-Berkeley (Haas), Berkeley, CA4.531Full-time, Part-time, EMBA
  8. Hult International, San Francisco, CA4.52NAFull-time, EMBA
  8. Marlboro College, Brattleboro, VT4.52NAFull-time, Part-time, EMBA
10. Mills College (Lokey), Oakland, CA4.415Full-time, Part-time
11. Northwestern University (Kellogg), Evanston, IL4.3817Full-time, Part-time, EMBA
12. Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, CA4.35NAFull-time
12. University of Notre Dame (Mendoza), South Bend, IN4.352Full-time
14. Pepperdine University (Graziadio), Malibu, CA4.297Full-time, Part-time, EMBA
15. MIT (Sloan), Cambridge, MA4.21NAFull-time, EMBA
16. Cornell University (Johnson), Ithaca, NY4.1716Full-time, EMBA
17. Columbia Business School, New York, NY4.16NAFull-time, EMBA
18. North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler), Chapel Hill, NC4.1518Full-time
19. Antioch University, Keene, NH4.12NAFull-time, Part-time, Hybrid
20. University of Maryland (Smith), College Park, MD4.11NAFull-time, Part-time, EMBA
21. California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA4.10NAFull-time
22. Boston University, Boston, MA4.0326Full-time, Part-time, EMBA
23. Audencia Nantes School of Management, Nantes, France4.00NAFull-time, EMBA
23. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY4.00NAFull-time, Part-time
23. Emory University (Goizueta), Atlanta, GA4.00NAFull-time, Part-time, EMBA
23. Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA4.00NAFull-time
23. UC-Santa Barbara (Bren), Santa Barbara, CA4.0032Full-time, Part-time

Top 25 Of 2014 Net Impact Environmental Sustainability Ranking


2014 Rank & SchoolIndex Score2013 RankDegree Options
  1. UC-Santa Barbara (Bren), Santa Barbara, CA4.902Full-time, Part-time
  2. Presidio Graduate School, San Francisco, CA4.861Full-time, Part-time
  3. Bainbridge Graduate Institute (Pinchot), Seattle, WA4.823Full-time, Part-time
  4. University of Michigan (Ross), Ann Arbor, MI4.785Full-time, Part-time, EMBA
  5. MIT (Sloan), Cambridge, MA4.58NAFull-time, EMBA
  6. Cornell University (Johnson), Ithaca, NY4.536Full-time, EMBA
  7. Yale School of Management, New Haven, CT4.5213Full-time, EMBA
  8. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY4.40NAFull-time, Part-time
  9. Pepperdine University (Graziadio), Malibu, CA4.3811Full-time, Part-time, EMBA
10. Duquesne University (Donahue), Pittsburgh, PA4.35NAFull-time, Part-time
11. Marlboro College, Brattleboro, VT4.33NAFull-time, Part-time, EMBA
12. Duke University (Fuqua), Durham, NC4.24NAFull-time, EMBA
12. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA4.2419Full-time, Part-time
14. North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler), Chapel Hill, NC4.239Full-time
15. University of Oregon (Lundquist), Eugene, OR4.218Full-time
16. Antioch University, Keene, NH4.17NAFull-time, Part-time, EMBA
17. UC-Davis, Davis, CA4.1512Full-time, Part-time
18. Mills College (Lokey), Oakland, CA4.1414Full-time, Part-time
19. Audencia Nantes School of Management, Nantes, France4.00NAFull-time, EMBA
19. York University (Schulich), Ontario, Canada4.00NAFull-time, Part-time, EMBA
21. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO3.9334Full-time, Part-time, EMBA
22. UC-Berkeley (Haas), Berkeley, CA3.896Full-time, Part-time, EMBA
22. California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA3.89Row:23 Cell:3Full-time
24. Illinois Institute of Technology (Stuart), Chicago, IL3.8822Full-time, Part-time
25. Portland State University, Portland, OR3.8516Full-time, Part-time, EMBA

Thursday, September 11, 2014

U S News University Rankings in USA 09-12


U.S. News rankSchoolTuition and FeesTotal enrollmentFall 2013 acceptance rateAverage freshman retention rate6-year graduation rateClasses with fewer than 20 studentsSAT/ACT 25th-75th percentile
#1
Princeton University 
Princeton, NJ
$41,820 8,014 7.4% 98% 97% 
#2
Harvard University 
Cambridge, MA
$43,938 19,882 5.8% 97% 97% 
#3
Yale University 
New Haven, CT
$45,800 12,109 6.9% 99% 98% 
#4Tie
Columbia University
New York, NY
$51,008 23,606 6.9% 99% 96% 
#4Tie
Stanford University 
Stanford, CA
$44,757 18,136 5.7% 98% 96% 
#4Tie
University of Chicago 
Chicago, IL
$48,253 12,539 8.8% 99% 93% 
#7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Cambridge, MA
$45,016 11,301 8.2% 98% 93% 
#8Tie
Duke University 
Durham, NC
$47,488 15,465 12.4% 97% 94% 
#8Tie
University of Pennsylvania 
Philadelphia, PA
$47,668 21,358 12.2% 98% 96% 
#10
California Institute of Technology 
Pasadena, CA
$43,362 2,181 10.6% 97% 93% 
#11
Dartmouth College 
Hanover, NH
$48,108 6,342 10.4% 98% 95% 
#12
Johns Hopkins University 
Baltimore, MD
$47,060 21,052 17.1% 97% 93% 
#13
Northwestern University 
Evanston, IL
$47,251 20,997 14% 97% 94% 
#14
Washington University in St. Louis 
St. Louis, MO
$46,467 14,032 15.6% 97% 94% 
#15
Cornell University 
Ithaca, NY
$47,286 21,593 15.6% 97% 93% 
#16Tie
Brown University 
Providence, RI
$47,434 8,943 9.2% 98% 94% 
#16Tie
University of Notre Dame 
Notre Dame, IN
$46,237 12,124 22.3% 98% 95% 
#16Tie
Vanderbilt University 
Nashville, TN
$43,838 12,757 12.7% 97% 93% 
#19
Rice University 
Houston, TX
$40,566 6,628 16.7% 97% 91% 
#20
University of California—​Berkeley 
Berkeley, CA
in-state: $13,844, out-of-state: $25,064 36,204 17.7% 97% 91% 
#21Tie
Emory University 
Atlanta, GA
$45,008 14,513 26.5% 95% 91% 
#21Tie
Georgetown University 
Washington, DC
$46,744 17,849 17.1% 96% 92% 
#23Tie
University of California—​Los Angeles 
Los Angeles, CA
in-state: $12,702, out-of-state: $35,580 42,190 20.4% 97% 90% 
#23Tie
University of Virginia 
Charlottesville, VA
in-state: $12,998, out-of-state: $42,184 23,464 30.1% 97% 93% 
#25Tie
Carnegie Mellon University 
Pittsburgh, PA
$48,786 12,991 25.5% 95% 88% 
#25Tie
University of Southern California 
Los Angeles, CA
$48,280 41,368 19.8% 97% 91% 
#27Tie
Tufts University 
Medford, MA
$48,643 10,872 18.9% 97% 92% 
#27Tie
Wake Forest University 
Winston-Salem, NC
$46,200 7,602 35.2% 94% 86% 
#29
University of Michigan—​Ann Arbor 
Ann Arbor, MI
in-state: $13,977, out-of-state: $41,811 43,710 33.3% 97% 90% 
#30
University of North Carolina—​Chapel Hill 
Chapel Hill, NC
in-state: $8,374, out-of-state: $33,624 29,127 26.7% 97% 90% 
#31
Boston College 
Chestnut Hill, MA
$47,436 13,525 32.2% 95% 91% 
#32
New York University 
New York, NY
$46,170 44,599 32.4% 92% 84% 
#33Tie
College of William and Mary 
Williamsburg, VA
in-state: $17,656, out-of-state: $39,360 8,376 33.2% 96% 90% 
#33Tie
University of Rochester 
Rochester, NY
$46,960 11,020 35.7% 96% 85% 
#35Tie
Brandeis University 
Waltham, MA
$47,833 5,825 37% 93% 90% 
#35Tie
Georgia Institute of Technology 
Atlanta, GA
in-state: $11,394, out-of-state: $30,698 21,471 41.1% 95% 82% 
#37
University of California—​San Diego
La Jolla, CA
in-state: $13,302, out-of-state: $36,180 28,731 36.8% 95% 86% 
#38Tie
Case Western Reserve University 
Cleveland, OH
$43,158 10,325 41.9% 93% 80% 
#38Tie
University of California—​Davis 
Davis, CA
in-state: $13,896, out-of-state: $36,774 33,307 41.3% 93% 84% 
#40Tie
Lehigh University 
Bethlehem, PA
$44,890 7,096 30.8% 94% 86% 
#40Tie
University of California—​Santa Barbara 
Santa Barbara, CA
in-state: $13,746, out-of-state: $36,624 22,225 39.8% 92% 86% 
#42Tie
Boston University 
Boston, MA
$46,664 32,411 36.9% 92% 84% 
#42Tie
Northeastern University 
Boston, MA
$43,440 20,034 32.3% 95% 83% 
#42Tie
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 
Troy, NY
$47,908 6,995 41.2% 93% 85% 
#42Tie
University of California—​Irvine 
Irvine, CA
in-state: $14,757, out-of-state: $37,635 28,895 41.1% 94% 86% 
#42Tie
University of Illinois—​Urbana-​Champaign 
Champaign, IL
in-state: $15,602, out-of-state: $30,228 44,942 62.4% 94% 84% 
#47
University of Wisconsin—​Madison
Madison, WI
in-state: $10,410, out-of-state: $26,660 43,275 51.1% 95% 84% 
#48Tie
Pennsylvania State University—​University Park 
University Park, PA
in-state: $17,502, out-of-state: $30,452 46,615 55.5% 92% 85% 
#48Tie
University of Florida 
Gainesville, FL
in-state: $6,313, out-of-state: $28,591 49,878 46.6% 96% 87% 
#48Tie
University of Miami 
Coral Gables, FL
$44,350 16,935 40.5% 91% 82% 
#48Tie
University of Washington 
Seattle, WA
in-state: $12,394, out-of-state: $33,513 43,762 55.2% 93% 82% 
#48Tie
Yeshiva University 
New York, NY
$38,730 6,744 82.2% 91% 89% 






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