Welcome to this Week in Review. Below is a
selection of news articles and a video that caught our eye from our Media Review, Facebook and Twitter accounts. We hope you enjoy the read.
Can
'happiness economics' provide a new framework for development? (Guardian
03.09.2013)
Measuring wellbeing shows quality of life and
helps explain its determinants. But can it be useful in post-MDGs policy?
Christian Kroll’s new study reveals that three very important development
goals, namely income, health and education, for people's life satisfaction
varies significantly across nations.
Science
Times Special Section: Learning What Works (New York Times)
A varied selection of informative articles on
education.
Stats and the
city (OECD Insights Blog 02.09.2013)
The Metropolitan
Explorer is
a nifty tool from the OECD that lets you explore statistics for 268 metropolitan areas in OECD countries.
Video
Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent
education
10
commandments for new teachers (Guardian 03.09.2013)
From the power of Google to ditching the monotone,
secondary teacher Lulu Kuper shares her proven tips on how NQTs can get the
best from their students.
When
life means school again (Education Today blog 02.09.2013)
Children are starting school at an ever
younger age, OECD’s recent Education at a Glance 2013 shows that in 2011 on
average over 84% of all four year-old children were enrolled in some form of
formal education, which is 5% more than in 2005.
Wikigender’s online discussion
on “How do
discriminatory social norms relate to the gender dynamics of international
migration?” is now open! We invite you to join the
discussion, to read and leave your comment. Here is the link: http://bit.ly/16TdlNJ and
the hashtag used in Twitter is #migration.
This month Wikiprogress and networks will
focus on Education
and Skill.
Wikiprogress Team
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