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This is a follow up on my earlier post on the Gulen schools, Cosmos Foundation, Harmony Schools.
A pro-education religious movement could be a good thing. Is it?
This is a follow up on my earlier post on the Gulen schools, Cosmos Foundation, Harmony Schools.
A pro-education religious movement could be a good thing. Is it?
Newsweek's Jonathan Alter likes charter schools, and often enough writes about them and his frustration that public schools and their teachers won't roll over and play dead while charter schools steal money from them (my characterization, not Alter's).
At Public School Insights, Claus von Zastrow suggested that maybe pundits like Alter ought to be subject to having their pay docked when they screw up, too. Then he went further, and specifically criticized a recent Alter column, point for point.
A few comments down, who should show up to make his case, but Jonathan Alter.
Go watch, and learn. Among other things, the discussion is much more civil than we usually see on blogs. It's a lesson for Christians and creationists especially.
It's not much of a conflict of interest, but I have dealt with Alter before, in his previous job at The New Republic (back when it was not so much a bastion of neo-conservatism). Alter did a major profile of Sen. Orrin Hatch. Alter strove not to be flattering, and the biggest problem was the Vint Lawrence illustration, showing Hatch draped in the American flag as a cloak. As I recall from those now-dusty decades, the profile wasn't exactly correlated with the illustration on any issue. Over the years, Alter's been closer to correct more often than he's been wrong, in my view — his views on charter schools being in that area where I think he errs.
Public schools have never suffered from a surplus of money. Charter school advocates should not be allowed to steal income from public schools directly. To shore up GM, we don't allow GM to take a share of profit from Ford for every GM car sold. Nor do we allow Ford to take a share of GM's income. Competition in education is a foolish pursuit most often, but we don't need a competitive model that bleeds education on either end, as Alter's advocacy favors.
In hard economic terms, free market, gloves-off, bare-fisted capitalistic competition has never been shown to work in education. I never could figure out Milton Friedman's advocacy for such competition since there is no case ever to be made that competition makes better schools, nor that privately-run schools work better for educating an entire nation than public schools. I think all relevant evidence runs the other way.
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John McCain's campaign suggests the remaining weeks of the presidential campaign should concentrate on personalities rather than issues. Why?
McCain's issues sound like the failed policies of the George Bush administration, so it should be obvious why he doesn't want to talk about them.
We have a higher duty, especially on the issues of education. We need to live up to the challenge of young Dalton Sherman (who gave a more substantial speech than Sarah Palin, I think: "'Do you believe in me?' 5th grader Dalton Sherman inspires Dallas teachers.")
In his acceptance speech Thursday night, McCain promised to continue the War on Education, hurling bolts — okay, aiming sparks — at much of the education establishment, but promising nothing that might actually improve education and help out great kids like Dalton Sherman.
Here I've taken the text of McCain's speech as delivered (from the interactive site at The New York Times) and offer commentary. For McCain's sake, and because it reveals the threat to education, I've left in the applause indicators.
McCain said:
Education — education is the civil rights issue of this century.
Equal access to public education has been gained, but what is the value of access to a failing school? We need…
(APPLAUSE) We need to shake up failed school bureaucracies with competition, empower parents with choice.
Competition has never been demonstrated to improve education. In state after state where it's been tried, we've found corruption tends to squander the education dollars, and the education dollars themselves are diluted and diverted from struggling public schools. If John McCain promised to help New Orleans by diverting money from the Army Corps of Engineers to "competition in the levee building business," people would scoff. If he promised to divert money from the Pentagon to offer "competition" in the national security business, he'd be tarred and feathered by his fellow veterans.
We need to make schools work, period. Taking money away from struggling schools won't help, and taking money from successful schools would be unjust, and a sin – in addition to failing to help. 40 years of malign neglect of education in inner cities and minority areas should not be the excuse to dismantle America's education system which remains the envy of the rest of the world despite all its problems, chiefly because it offers access to all regardless of income, birth status, color or location.
Millions of people fight to get to the U.S. because of the opportunities offered by education here. McCain offers to snuff out that beacon of liberty. If his position differs from George W. Bush's, I don't know where. If his position differs from that of the anti-U.S. government secessionists and dominionists, it's difficult to tell how.
Let's remove barriers to qualified instructors, attract and reward good teachers, and help bad teachers find another line of work.
The No Child Left Behind Act prompted states to develop brand new, impenetrable bureacracies to grant teaching certificates to people who do not go through state-approved schools of education. These bureacracies often are unaccountable to elected officials, or to appointed officials. They were quickly thrown together to regulate a brand new industry of training programs designed to meet the technical requirements of state enabling legislation, and often deaf to the needs and requirements of local schools.
The chief barriers to qualified instructors are low pay, entrenched administration, and a slew of paperwork designed to "expose" teachers in their work rather than aid students in education, which all too often keep qualified teachers from getting teaching done, and discourage qualified people from other professions from getting into the business. Who could afford to get into telephone soliciting if every phone call had to be documented by hand, with evaluations that take longer than the phone calls? That's what teachers in "failing" schools face daily, and it's a chief factor in the exodus of highly qualified teachers from public schools over the last six years (a trend that may be accelerating).
This proposal would make sense if there were a backlog of qualified and highly-effective teachers trying to get into teaching — but quite the opposite, we have a shortage of teachers nationwide (check out the debates in Utah last year on their poorly-planned voucher program, which sounds a lot like what McCain is proposing).
Has McCain had any serious experience public schools in the last 22 years? (I'm wondering here; I don't know.)
When a public school fails to meet its obligations to students, parent — when it fails to meet its obligations to students, parents deserve a choice in the education of their children. And I intend to give it to them.
Some may choose a better public school. Some may choose a private one. Many will choose a charter school. But they will have the choice, and their children will have that opportunity.
Of course, with McCain taking money from the public schools, it will be difficult to find a "better" public school, ultimately. Here in Texas we've experimented for more than a decade with a statewide plan to shuffle money from "rich" school districts to poorer districts, under a plan generally and cleverly called "the Robin Hood plan." We still have good and excellent schools in districts across the state, but an increasing number of the designated-rich districts have smashed into tax rate ceilings, and are cutting programs from school curricula, and extra-curricular activities.
Charter schools in Texas are numerous, but in trouble. Few of them, if any, have been able to create the extra capital investment required to build good school buildings, or especially to provide things like good laboratory classrooms for science classes, auditoriums with well-equipped stages for drama, literature, and general sessions of the entire school, or adequate facilities for physical education and recreation — let alone extracurricular athletics.
Charter schools and private schools often short science education. A coalition of private schools sued the University of California system to require the universities to accept inferior science education, rather than provide good science education. (A judge tossed the suit out; the coalition is appealing the decision.) Worse, this coalition includes some of the nation's best private, religious schools. When a group claimed as the best plead for acceptance of mediocrity, it's time to re-examine whether resort to that group is prudent. When the "best" private schools plead to lower the standards in science, it's time to beef up the public schools instead.
Worse, many charter schools in Texas and elsewhere are riddled with incompetence, and a few riddled with corruption. The Dallas Morning News this morning carries a story about a group running two charter schools, one in the Dallas area and one in the Houston area, both in trouble for failing to measure up to any standards of accountability, in testing, in other achievement, in teaching, or in financial accounting. Economists note that free markets mean waste in some areas (ugly shoes don't sell — the shoe maker will stop making ugly shoes, but those already made cannot be recalled). Administration appears to be one area of enormous waste in "school choice."
Several American urban districts have tried a variety of private corporations to operate schools on a contract basis. If there is a successful experiment, it has yet to be revealed. These experiments crashed in San Francisco, Dallas, Philadelphia and Baltimore, from sea to shining sea. Continued hammering at the foundations of good education, calling it "competition" or "peeing in the soup," isn't going to produce the results that American students, and parents, and employers, deserve.
Choice between a failing public school and a corrupt or inept charter school, is not a choice. Why not invest the money where we know it works, in reducing class size and improving resources? That costs money, but there is no cheap solution to excellence.
Senator Obama wants our schools to answer to unions and entrenched bureaucrats. I want schools to answer to parents and students.
And when I'm president, they will.
My fellow Americans, when I'm president, we're going to embark on the most ambitious national project in decades.
Here we see how out of touch with America John McCain really is. Does he think that any school system in the nation "answers to unions and entrenched bureaucrats?" Seriously? Does he realize the "entrenched bureaucrats" are anti-union?
Seriously. Think about this. Texas is the nation's second largest state. There is no teacher's union here worth the name. State law forbids using strike as a tool for bargaining or negotiation. Teachers here generally are opposed to unions anyway (don't ask me to explain — most of them voted for George Bush, before he showed his stripes — but there is no pro-union bias among Texas teachers). Teachers unions are either much reduced in power in those cities where they used to be able to muster strikes, like Detroit or New York City, or they have agreed to cooperate with the anti-union proposals that offer any hope of improving education. Read that again: I'm saying unions have agreed to give up power to help education.
So what is the real problem? The bureaucracy choking schools today is not the fault of teachers. Significantly, it's required by the No Child Left Behind Act. But even that is not the chief problem in schools, and those problems are not from teachers.
Teachers did not move auto manufacturing out of Detroit. GM did that. Fighting the teachers union won't bring back Detroit's schools. Charter schools aren't going to do it, either. Teachers didn't drown New Orleans. The failure of the levees after Hurricane Katrina did that. Busting the unions in New Orleans has done nothing to improve education, as all of New Orleans struggles, and as former Big Easy residents resist going back so long as the schools are a mess. Our schools in Texas have taken on thousands of students from New Orleans and other areas hammered by storms — public schools, not charter schools. In many cases, parents are choosing public schools John McCain wants to push kids out of. Go figure.
Hard economic times hammer schools. Teachers didn't create the housing bubble, and it's certain that teachers were not the ones who failed to regulate the mortgage brokers adequately. We can't improve education if we don't have the necessary clues about what the problems really are.
Public education is an essential pillar of American republican democracy. Public education is the chief driver of our economy. McCain appears wholly unaware of the conditions in America's schools, and he appears unwilling to push for excellence. Instead, to drowning schools, McCain promises to through a bucket of water, and maybe an anchor to keep them in place. He's urging a road to mediocre schools. Mediocrity to promote political conservatism, or just to get elected, is a sin.
McCain's running mate brutalized the public library in her term as mayor of Wassilla. If she has a better record on education since becoming governor, I'd like to hear about it.
Teachers, did you listen to McCain's speech? How are you going to vote?
Gifted with a surplus of funds due to a good economy, the Utah legislature hiked education spending in almost every category, providing pay increases for teachers, more teachers, more schools, more books, more computers — adding more than $450 million, raising the total state education check to $2.6 billion for elementary and secondary schools.
Much of the increases will be consumed by rising enrollments.
Through much of the 20th century Utah led the nation in educational attainment, but fell in state rankings as population growth accelerated especially through the 1980s and 1990s. The Salt Lake Tribune's story sardonically noted:
The budget package increases per-pupil spending by more than 8 percent. But because other states may also boost school funds this year, fiscal analysts can't yet say whether the new money will move Utah out of last place in the nation in money spent per student.
Classroom size reduction is excluded from the increases, because the legislature thinks earlier appropriations for that purpose were misused, according to the Associated Press story in the Casper (Wyoming) Star-Tribune:
The extra $450 million will have little effect on reducing classroom size, however, because even as Utah hires more teachers, every year brings more students.
Lawmakers said they were withholding money for reducing classroom sizes until legislative auditors can investigate reports that districts misappropriated some of the $800 million dedicated for that purpose since 1992.
Every teacher and librarian should get a $2,500 pay raise and a $1,000, one-time "thank-you" bonus. Starting pay for teachers in Utah averages barely over $26,000 now.
Median Sib hosts the 104th Carnival of Education. If you're not reading these regularly, you're missing a lot in education. Even more useful is checking out the blogs the selected posts come from. This week's posts include pieces on science education in Florida, the misfiring of the intended incentive pay to Houston Independent School District teachers, standards under NCLB, and more.
And, as EduWonks suggests, one might learn more by perusing the 57th Carnival of Homeschooling at PalmTree Pundit — a couple of good geography teaching posts there.
It's like this internet thingy is some information highway or something.
Image: Gateway to Boston Latin School, probably the oldest operating public school in America. Ben Franklin's schooling was obtained at this school (probably in an earlier building!)
Little Rock's Central High School, portrayed in a postcard (courtesy of Curt Teich Postcard Archives and the University of Arkansas Libraries)
Just a postcard to remind you that the 101st Carnival of Education is up over at I Thought a Think. There is a new Congress; many state legislatures are gearing up. It's a good time to discuss education policy. Perhaps more to the point, if we don't contribute to the discussion now, policy changes will go on without our contribution. Read the posts, and take action.
Teachers in Detroit may not be in class when school opens on the day after Labor Day — tomorrow. They are striking for higher wages and better use of classroom resources; the district is asking for $88 million in cuts to salary and benefits. Here is a summary of the issues from the Detroit Free Press.
Detroit's troubles demonstrate, simply, that education reform is not easy.
There are test pressures:
"We don't want to disrupt the education environment of our students," said Lekan Oguntoyinbo, spokesman for the district. "We have MEAP exams coming up in a couple of months here. We're striving to be more competitive. Every day is important."
District officials plan to replace 9,500 teachers and other union members with 250 administrators, to manage the 129,000 students.
Parents want good teachers in the classroom:
Kizzy Davis, whose 5-year-old daughter is to start kindergarten, said putting non-teachers in classes concerns her. "I wouldn't send my child to school" without teachers, Davis said. "I'd put her in another school district."
Superintendent William F. Coleman III had promised to hold classes whether teachers showed up or not. And about 250 teacher-certified administrators attended orientation sessions so they'd be ready to hit the classrooms Tuesday. But Saturday, Coleman said the district might reconsider.
Delores Smith Jackson, whose grandchildren attend King Academic and Performing Arts Academy, said schools shouldn't open if they don't have enough administrators to fill the classes.
"It would just become a warehouse," Jackson said.
But she said if school went on, "I'll be right there, doing whatever I can to assist."
Teachers and administrators go in completely opposite directions on the salary negotiations:
The sides have been negotiating for months. The district says it must cut $88 million from teachers' salaries and benefits to help account for a $105-million deficit. The union has asked for 5% pay raises over the next three years.
District officials said they don't have the money to meet teachers' demands. But union officials said teachers haven't had a raise in three years and insist the district has the money but that it's mismanaged.
Teachers want more than money, too — they are asking for enough resources to make the classrooms places of learning:
"It's not just the money we're striking for," said RaQuel Harris, an English teacher at Central High. "It's really a matter of how they are spending the money. We don't have supplies we need to educate the students. I only have one set of novels for my students to read, which means the students cannot check the books out and take them home."
And the Detroit district is a model for voucher advocates -- it faces stiff competition from alternative methods touted as ways to improve foundering districts like Detroit, and foundering schools like many in Detroit. Charter schools and the ability to transfer students out only rob the district of money it needs to keep going, however, far from sharpening any competitive ability:
District officials had feared that if schools don't open, even more parents would enroll their children in neighboring school districts or charter schools. Detroit has lost about 50,000 students over the last several years. In Michigan, public school funding is based on enrollment, and the exodus of students has fueled the district's financial crisis.
Federally-mandated testing accompanied with no funding to fix classroom deficits or increase teacher salaries probably do more damage in this situation than help. Bumper sticker solutions — "give kids a choice;" "students don't have a prayer;" "what kids need is a moment of science" — don't even produce a smile in Detroit.
Solutions will take time. Every year sees another 10,000 students sent off without the education everyone says they need to have; this is not the first year of such crises.
What would it take to get you to sign up to teach in Detroit?
Update, September 7: Here's an example of anti-teacher bias at two or three.net that clarifies my views: The teachers are probably right in demanding more money. A pay range of $36,000 for a college graduate, topping out at $70,000 for a Ph.D. with 30 years of experience, is an insult to humans, to education, and especially to any teacher with the guts to teach in Detroit. It's a pay scale designed to scare away the best and the brightest. (Those who answer the call are saints.) I hope the school system can figure out a way to get the money to meet the teachers' demands, and I fear that the anti-public education people are winning the fight to kill Detroit's schools, and Detroit.
Update, September 14: The Education Wonks have a related post, "Dept. of Ed. retreats on teacher quality. Tip of the scrub brush to the 84th Carnival of Education at Current Events in Education.


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Amish farm kids remarkably immune to allergies-study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Amish children raised on rural farms in northern Indiana suffer from asthma and allergies less often even than Swiss farm kids, a group known to be relatively free from allergies, according to a new study.
"The rates are very, very low," said Dr. Mark Holbreich, the study's lead author. "So there's something that we feel is even more protective in the Amish" than in European farming communities.
What it is about growing up on farms -- and Amish farms in particular -- that seems to prevent allergies remains unclear.
Researchers have long observed the so-called "farm effect" -- the low allergy and asthma rates found among kids raised on farms -- in central Europe, but less is known about the influence of growing up on North American farms.
Holbreich, an allergist in Indianapolis, has been treating Amish communities in Indiana for two decades, but he noticed that very few Amish actually had any allergies.
As studies on the farm effect in Europe began to emerge several years ago, Holbreich wondered if the same phenomenon might be found in the United States.
He teamed up with European colleagues to compare Swiss farming children and non-farming children to Amish kids in Indiana.
Amish families, who can trace their roots back to Switzerland, typically farm using methods from the 1800s and they don't own cars or televisions.
The researchers surveyed 157 Amish families, about 3,000 Swiss farming families, and close to 11,000 Swiss families who did not live on a farm -- all with children between the ages of six and 12.
They found that just five percent of Amish kids had been diagnosed with asthma, compared to 6.8 percent of Swiss farm kids and 11.2 percent of the other Swiss children.
Similarly, among 138 Amish kids given a skin-prick test to determine whether they were predisposed to having allergies, only 10 kids -- or seven percent -- had a positive response.
In comparison, 25 percent of the farm-raised Swiss kids and 44 percent of the other Swiss children had a positive test, the researchers report in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
The study did not determine why the kids who grew up on farms were less likely to develop asthma and allergies, but other research has pointed to exposure to microbes and contact with cows, in particular, to partially explain the farm effect (see Reuters Health story of May 2, 2012).
Drinking raw cow's milk also seems to be involved, Holbreich said.
The going theory is this early exposure to the diverse potential allergens and pathogens on a farm trains the immune system to recognize them, but not overreact to the harmless ones.
As for why the Amish kids have even lower allergy and asthma rates than the other farming kids, "that piece of the puzzle we really haven't explained," Holbreich told Reuters Health.
He speculated that it could be at least partly a result of the Amish having larger families or spending even more time outside or in barns than people on more modern working farms.
Dr. Corinna Bowser, an allergist in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, said there's also a possibility that inherited factors could play a role.
"The Amish are still of a limited genetic pool, I would assume, because they're much more segregated than the Swiss kids are," she told Reuters Health.
Holbreich said upcoming studies will further investigate the differences between the farming groups, with an eye toward designing possible interventions.
For instance, pregnant mothers or young children could be exposed to the mysterious factors that seem to protect farm kids as a preventive treatment, he explained.
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There were nine ties and 14 lead changes in Baker's 73-64 victory. Baker had a 51-33 advantage in bench points and went 21-for-24 from the free-throw line. The Wildcats were 20-of-22 from the stripe in the second half.
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According to evidence presented at trial, federal agents executed a search warrant at Fries' home in Tucson on May 13, 2011, in connection with the investigation related to the chemical weapon charges. Agents discovered 24 explosive devices, three containing added fragmentation, in a bedroom in the Fries residence. The chemical weapon charges stemmed from an incident that occurred on Aug. 2, 2009, when a chlorine chemical device was placed at the home of Fries' former clients with whom he had a billing dispute. In that incident, the chlorine device produced a huge chlorine containing cloud that enveloped a neighborhood on the northwest side of Tucson and resulted in the evacuation of the neighborhood.
A conviction for unlawful possession of unregistered devices carries a maximum penalty of ten years in prison and not more than a $10,000 fine or both.
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Algeria's kidnapped governor returns home
Algiers – An Algerian regional governor who officials said was kidnapped and then freed in neighbouring Libya was handed over to the Algerian authorities on Wednesday, the speaker of Algeria's parliament said.
The circumstances surrounding the abduction remain unclear, but it is likely to heighten concerns that instability in Libya since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi is spilling over into its neighbours and providing fertile ground for Islamist insurgents.
"I can inform you that the Illizi governor was handed over to the Algerian authorities today," Abdelaziz Ziari, the speaker of parliament, told lawmakers in the capital, Algiers. "He is in good health."
The Algerian Interior Ministry said that the governor, Mohamed Laid Khelfi, was abducted on Monday by three armed men when he returned from a visit to Debdeb, on the Libyan-Algerian border about 1 700 km south of the capital.
It said he was freed about 24 hours later, inside Libya, when Libyan security forces intercepted his kidnappers.
Two security sources told Reuters the governor was held by al-Qaeda's north African branch, though officials in Algeria have not confirmed this.
Libya's interim government has made no comment, but the head of a powerful militia in Tripoli cast doubt on the Algerian account, saying the incident happened inside Algeria and that it had nothing to do with Libya.
The kidnapping, deep in the Sahara desert, was the most audacious attack on a senior official for years in Algeria. The north African oil and gas exporter has been fighting a two-decade battle against Islamist insurgents.
Security experts say the instability and lack of strong government in Libya since the fall of Gaddafi have handed the insurgents a source of weapons and a safe haven from which to launch their attacks.
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Colorado State University RamRide volunteer arrested on suspicion of DUI
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - A student driver for a service that gives safe rides home for Colorado State University students has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving while on duty.
The Rocky Mountain Collegian reports campus police arrested the RamRide driver around 2 a.m. Friday.
A representative for the Larimer County district attorney's office says the student faces charges of speeding, driving under the influence of liquor, and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
RamRide is provided through the Associated Students of CSU.
The group's website says: "This program provides safe, non-judgmental rides for Colorado State University students with the goal of improving the safety of the Fort Collins community."
The website also says the program is "non-judgmental by never asking why a patron needs a ride home and never asking for facts like full name or age. A patron needs only to call in with basic information and location and they will be provided a ride with no questions asked."
The group's chief of staff, Robert Duran, says only the driver and another volunteer were in the car at the time of the arrest.


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Christmas is coming, and the magic elves are working hard to create all manner of Christmas fayres in Andalucia.
Below is a selection of the best events over the next fortnight, where you can pick up those essential gifts and decorations and of course enjoy a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie while you're at it!
Al Lago Christmas Market (Zahara de la Sierra)
December 15, 11am-4pm
Seasonal goodies, street foods, mulled wine, mince pies. Leathers, raw chocolate, crepes, turron, proper Christmas cakes, organic vegetables. Call 956 123 032
Gaucin Christmas Fair (El Convento)
December 1 and 2, 10am-5pm
Gifts, cards, wines, vintage wear, jewellery, clothes and furniture, books. Tarot reader, human juke box by Marcus Myers and others, lunches and bar.
Christmas Fair (Hacienda Almoguera, Los Barrios, Cadiz)
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30 festive stalls, cakes, bakes and crafts. Fun for all the family. Call 607 474 988
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Social media is completely changing how business schools communicate with their students—but only some schools have gotten the message.
It's a typical Tuesday at Utah State University in Logan, where I attend the Huntsman School of Business. It's typical, at least, for an MBA student studying during the era of social media. My study routine is a clear example of how social media is transforming the act of communication.
After my first class, I spend the morning in the library reading from a digital textbook and working on homework projects on my laptop. I take a quick study break—I check my email, but I know I'll find the real news on my social media feeds. First, I pull up my Twitter account on my smartphone—I check for Utah State University news by checking the #AggieLife hashtag. I see a tweet from a USU student that piques my interest: "#USU JCOM professor Matt LaPlante speaking NOW (1 p.m. at the TSC auditorium!) 'Out of Iraq,' event about effects of war #aggielife #utah."
Suddenly, my plans have changed. I head over to hear the presentation sponsored by the department of journalism and communication.
Ten minutes later, I'm checking my email in the auditorium while I listen to a panel of war vets and journalists talk about their time in Iraq. I find this experience satisfying, so I tweet back to the USU student who tweeted about the event: "Thanks for the heads-up. This is interesting stuff."
As a business student in the social media age, I am fascinated by the immediacy—the real-time nature—of social media. The technology has sped up communication between individuals and organizations, and it has given students enhanced access to information about—and from—their schools. Social media has quickly become one of the most common methods students use to stay connected with their peers, their schools, and the world. In fact, in their 2012 study, Nicholas Capano, Johanna Deris, and Eric Desjardins of the University of New Hampshire in Durham found that nearly all UNH students use at least one social media platform, with 96 percent of students using Facebook and 84 percent of students using YouTube. Although this study focused only on UNH, it is likely that other universities would see similar rates of social media usage among their student bodies.
As part of my work as the student social media manager for the Huntsman School, I was responsible for benchmarking its social media efforts against those of other U.S. business schools. In March 2012, a colleague and I gathered social media data for 371 AACSB-accredited business schools in the U.S. Our goal: to learn what the Huntsman School was doing well in the social media sphere and where it could improve.
However, our data don't just provide the Huntsman School with an idea of where it stands among its peers. The data show which social media practices are most common among top-performing schools, as well as where many schools fall short. They also offer a picture of how—and how well—the community of business schools is using social media to market, to communicate, and to teach.
To benchmark each business school's social media performance, we considered the following questions:
• Does the school have official profiles on Google Places, LinkedIn, and Google+?
• How many Facebook fans does the school have?
• What is the school's number of "people talking about this" on Facebook? Relatively new, the "talking about this" feature counts the number of Facebook fans who take actions such as liking the page, commenting on or sharing a post, or sending an RSVP to a posted event.
• How many Twitter followers does the school have?
• How many YouTube channel video views has the school generated?
• Does the school have an entry on Wikipedia?
• Does the school provide links from its websites to its social media feeds?
For instance, we found that only 139 of the 371 schools in our survey—or 37.5 percent—have articles about their institutions posted on Wikipedia. On the other hand, a majority of schools have fan pages on Facebook.
But the most successful schools don't just establish accounts on major social media sites. They also integrate those accounts with each other and with their home websites. Given that, we were surprised by how many business schools did not make such integration a priority. Business school Web sites have become hubs of information for business students, so it makes sense for schools to connect their websites to their social media feeds. But of the 371 business schools in our survey, nearly 36 percent—133 of them—did not provide links to their feeds on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or LinkedIn from their websites.
Why is this a problem? Just consider the following statistics:
• Business schools that have official Facebook pages and include links to those Facebook pages on their websites have an average of 1,654 fans.
• Business schools that have official Facebook pages, but that don't link to those pages from their websites, have an average of only 439 fans.
• Business schools with official Twitter handles and links on their Web sites to their handles have an average of 1,744 Twitter followers.
• Business schools that have official Twitter handles but that don't link to those handles from their websites have an average of only 509 followers.
Adding links to social media feeds is as easy as loading each social media service's plug-in to a Web site. Plug-ins can be found on Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media outlets on their Web site developer pages. Schools that haven't taken this step could be reducing the impact of their social media content by up to 70 percent.
How well business schools conduct their social media strategies depends solely on how well they manage and deploy communications on each individual network. That's why we explored what individual schools are doing on each major social media site. Here's what we found:
Facebook remains the most popular social media outlet for business schools. Currently, 64 percent of the AACSB business schools in our sample have established official business school Facebook fan pages and have, on average, 1,297 fans. At the time we took the sample, these schools also had an average of 31 individuals "talking about this."
To get an idea of how those results compare to some of the top schools in the market, we considered these numbers:
• All of the top-25 business schools in U.S. News & World Report's 2012 rankings have Facebook fan pages.
• Those top-25 business schools have an average of 6,194 Facebook fans each.
• Schools that ranked from 26 to 50 have an average of 1,796 Facebook fans.
• Harvard Business School has the most Facebook fans with 29,559.
• Harvard also has the most individuals "talking about this" at 672.
The second most popular social media platform for business schools, LinkedIn helps alumni locate career opportunities and maintain their networks. More than 48 percent of business schools have established official LinkedIn groups. That compares to 84 percent of top-50 business schools ranked by U.S. News & World Report.
Of all social media outlets, LinkedIn is perhaps the one that business schools actively manage the least. Business schools typically spend much more time developing their presences on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. That makes sense, given that business students and alumni are really using LinkedIn, not to support their lives at school, but to develop and digitize the professional networks they developed during their business school programs.
One of the most rapidly growing social media outlets, Twitter is unique in that business schools can tweet messages several times per day without breaking the social outlet's norms. If they made the same number of Facebook posts per day, many followers might consider it too much information and unsubscribe. As a result, more schools are using Twitter as a central tool for communicating with students regarding daily events and announcements.
Because of Twitter's easy access and quick response time, it also has become more common for students and potential students to address business-related questions to a business school's Twitter handle, instead of using traditional outlets such as email and phone.
Here's what we found:
• 42 percent of business schools in our sample have a Twitter handle.
• 100 percent of top-25 business schools have a Twitter handle.
• A number of business school deans are on Twitter, including Judy Olian of UCLA Anderson, Garth Saloner of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Rich Lyons of the Haas School of Business at UCBerkeley, Nitin Nohria of Harvard Business School, James Dean of the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, David Thomas of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, and Robert Bruner of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.
• As of April, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania had the most Twitter followers of any business school with 22,641. Harvard Business School came in second with 17,503, and MIT Sloan came in a close third at 16,022.
YouTube is now the second most popular search engine in the world behind Google, according to a July 2011 article in Search Engine Journal. Many current and future business school students use YouTube as a resource in their learning activities. Business schools have established channels where lectures, school video ads, and video interviews are uploaded.
As useful and informational as YouTube videos can be, only 31 percent of business schools have a YouTube channel, compared to 96 percent of top-25 business schools.
However, we found that when a school makes a commitment to online video, it can reap big rewards in increased visibility:
• Videos on the YouTube channel for Stanford University's Graduate School of Business had a total of 2,341,127 views at the time we took our sample.
• Many of Stanford's most popular YouTube videos are presentations given by its guest lecturers, who range from Pixar president Ed Catmull to rapper-turned entrepreneur MC Hammer. Some of its videos have received well over 100,000 views.
• The average business school channel has 57,145 video views, with a median view total of 5,252.
Google Places
Google Places is a free service that invites organizations to create customized profiles that include their locations, information about their offerings, photos, and other details. Google Places also offers statistical data that lets organizations track how many people are searching for them, where those people are located, what search terms they're using, and what information on Google Places they access the most. Users also can leave reviews about their experiences with an organization.
We found that schools on Google Places seem to benefit from excellent search engine results. Prospective students also turn to the user reviews—generated mainly by the school's students and alumni— as a unique way to learn about a business school's program.
Even so, only about 10 percent of business schools in our sample had a profile on Google Places. Two business schools tied for the most Google Places reviews at 35. These were the NYU Stern School of Business and the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Perhaps not surprisingly, there is a high correlation between schools that are ranked in the top 50 by U.S. News and World Report and schools that are highly established on social media outlets. Also not surprisingly, there is a correlation between schools with large student populations that use social media outlets and those with high numbers of followers, fans, and video views.
But there are exceptions to these correlations. I believe the schools that stand out as exceptions have the most valuable stories to tell.
For instance, Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business in Texas and Utah State's Huntsman School had 5,426 and 9,031 Twitter followers, respectively. Neither of these schools is ranked among the top 50 business schools by U.S. News and World Report. Both schools have a relatively average population of 3,000 students.
The Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia has 126,580 channel video views on YouTube. That places it ahead of top-25 schools such as Georgetown's McDonough School of Business and the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.
These examples prove that a business school doesn't need a high profile in the rankings to develop a high-profile approach to social media. These data provide all business schools with opportunities to compare their social media progress to their peers and learn valuable lessons about what social media can do for their programs and reputations.
As I mentioned, this is a fascinating time to be a business student, but it's just as great a time to be a business school. With today's social media tools, business schools can enhance their visibility in the market, connect with constituents at greater speed, and take only seconds to provide their students with new opportunities to learn. Simply put, social media is how today's students communicate. Whether by tweet, like, or status update, it's time for business schools to get that message.
Sterling Morris is a May 2012 graduate of the MS MIS program at Utah State University's Jon M. Huntsman School of Business in Logan. The article "Social Networking Usage and Grades Among College Students," written by Nicholas Capano, Johanna Deris, and Eric Desjardins, is available at www.unh. edu/news/docs/UNHsocialmedia.pdf. The article in Search Engine Journal referenced in this article is available at www.searchenginejournal.com/ youtube-video-optimization-from-a-toz/ 31278/. For an infographic on how business schools use social media, see www.bizedmagazine.com/features/ how-tweet/.


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SAN FRANCISCO. A new report states that 500 archaeological and heritage sites in developing countries have the potential to generate $100bn annually by 2025 if significant international efforts are made for their preservation and responsible development.
Saving Our Vanishing Heritage, compiled by the San Francisco-based non-profit organisation, the Global Heritage Fund (GHF), under the guidance of a 24-person committee of global heritage experts, also identifies 12 sites "on the verge" of vanishing owing to looting, conflict, underfunding, mismanagement and development pressures. Sites dangerously close to disappearing include a group of 18th-century terracotta temples of the Pala Kings in Maluti, India, the ancient city of Nineveh situated on the bank of the Tigris River in modern day Iraq and the Mayan settlement of Mirador located deep within the Guatemalan jungle. A further 200 sites have been identified as "at risk" from a survey of 500 major archaeological and heritage sites in developing countries."Billions are being spent on climate change initiatives and wildlife and nature preservation but very little money is going towards organised funding for cultural heritages sites," said GHF president Jeff Morgan, who called the current level of income "anaemic" saying that in the US, less than a quarter of one per cent of philanthropic donations go to heritage preservation.Morgan cites the bureaucratic nature of organisations such as the UN as one of the main reasons large corporations choose to put their money elsewhere. "A corporation that wants to give money towards Guatemalan heritage doesn't want to have to give the money to the UN who then hand it over to the Guatemalan government," he said. He believes the creation of multi-billion dollar global funds, similar to The Global Fund to Fight Aids, and managed by a joint executive board of government and private sector leaders, will attract more private money.The report states that "Global heritage sites are one of the most important economic assets of sustainable development for poor nations and their people." The revenue for 2009 for the 500 surveyed sites shows an income of over $24.7bn, with 50 sites including the Great Wall of China, the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor in China's Shaanxi Province and the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis and its necropolis generating over $100m. The aforementioned sites topped the list bringing in $2.89bn, $1.92bn and $936m respectively. Of the 50 sites, seven made over $500m, 18 made between $500m and $200m with the remaining 25 making between $200m and $100m.With tourism on the rise and an estimate of one-third of all international tourists visiting cultural heritage sites, the development of sustainable tourism programmes would provide local jobs and bring in much needed revenue to developing countries. "Unlike other industries such as mining that strips an area of its wealth, heritage keeps on giving over and over, year after year," said Morgan.
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