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Charting a course toward a better education | Impact not impasse
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Some observations on international development and philanthropy. Charting a course toward a better education. This entry was posted on June 28, 2013, in Uncategorized. As the private school sector mushrooms across the developing world, fledgling charter school-style education frameworks are emerging. The two girls study at Onwards and Upwards, a privately run secondary school on the outskirts of Kampala, Uganda, that is part of the PEAS school network. Stanford Social Innovation Review. Operates its 18 s...
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January | 2014 | Impact not impasse
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Some observations on international development and philanthropy. Posted in January 2014. Some of the blogs/articles/books that I found particularly interesting during the time-rich Christmas holidays. Turned out much longer than I anticipated Lots on inequality: During his inauguration speech, new New York democratic mayor Bill De Blasio vows to wage war on inequality, citing New York’s tale of two cities . This includes an increase in taxes … Continue reading →. Follow Blog via Email. Base of the Pyramid.
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December | 2014 | Impact not impasse
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Some observations on international development and philanthropy. Posted in December 2014. The Returns to a Good Education. If children worldwide are to receive the education they deserve, debate needs to move beyond public versus private, profit versus nonprofit Written with Katelyn Donnelly for Stanford Social Innovation Review – link here William lives with his two young children in a small tin house on a narrow road in Lagos, Nigeria. He sells vegetables … Continue reading →. Follow Blog via Email.
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October | 2013 | Impact not impasse
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Some observations on international development and philanthropy. Posted in October 2013. Everything that grows here has to put up a great fight to merely exist. A developmentista at ARK. Likes coffee. Plays Goal Attack. Follow Blog via Email. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Recently, on this blog. Fail Fast. Fail Often. A Mantra for the Privileged. The Returns to a Good Education. A lost generation in memory of Tibi Mushayandebvu. Curious obse...
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Eat, sleep, blog, Economics: Submitting to that better class of journal
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Eat, sleep, blog, Economics. Monday, 7 July 2014. Submitting to that better class of journal. If you never get rejected, you are not aiming high enough." - @LGTummers. 8212; Shit Academics Say (@AcademicsSay) May 29, 2014. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I am a professor and Director of the School of Economics at the NWU's Potchefstroom Campus. This blog is about my thoughts on teaching, research and management in Higher-ed Economics. View my complete profile. Basics of economic geography.
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Eat, sleep, blog, Economics: There is an app for that!
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Eat, sleep, blog, Economics. Saturday, 26 July 2014. There is an app for that! Of course you can just try old school cajoling of students until they answer your questions, or put up the MCQs and get some answers by show of hands. It takes a special sort of enthusiasm to "work" with 200 people at a time. Another solution to flipping a massive class (is it distance learning beyond the third row anyway? Until this week when I discovered plickers. In my class of 200 this could work nicely for checking group ...
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Eat, sleep, blog, Economics: August 2013
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Eat, sleep, blog, Economics. Sunday, 25 August 2013. So many links, so little time. I don't make enough time to share some thought on this blog. Weeks rush by with meetings, classes and late night reading of students' chapters 2 and 3 (they want to submit dissertations in November! I do however have a few things to share. And then he went on: Conclusions are provisory and not endorsed by the authors. Actually, the paper does not exist and was never written. Is the programme overbooked? But anyway, other ...
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Eat, sleep, blog, Economics: January 2014
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Eat, sleep, blog, Economics. Thursday, 30 January 2014. SA economy: The rand, exports and interest rates. I wanted to start my throwing around of ideas about the South African economy with a simpler story of the drivers for growth, but this week the depreciation of the exchange rate and repo rate increase by the Reserve Bank makes for the big news. One of the stories is that the weak rand will help to boost exports. Mike Schussler. To add some academic perspective I wrote a post on the School blog. The e...
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Eat, sleep, blog, Economics: June 2014
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Eat, sleep, blog, Economics. Wednesday, 4 June 2014. Day of days on the interwebs. It was a big day on the interwebs. Johan made a post with Econ paper clickbait. The titles of famous economics papers re-imagined as clickbait. The sharing got us a mention by Justin Wolfers:. If famous economics papers got clickbait titles, they'd totally be like this. http:/ t.co/WOHs58kFsl. 8212; Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) June 4, 2014. Then Nick Powdthavee shared this post from the Economic Job Market Rumours site.
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Eat, sleep, blog, Economics: May 2014
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Eat, sleep, blog, Economics. Monday, 19 May 2014. Economics research and some MOOC thoughts. I want to write a post about students calling for an overhaul of how Economics is taught. I have written about MOOCs before and following my reading of Average is over. It makes some good points, for example:. Its an experience, mentored by an expert, in which the student tries to accomplish something, fails, and then after some discussion with peers and mentors, tries again. For me the big insight was how boring...
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