Monday, October 21, 2013

NYT Debate on Whether to Study Aboard or Not

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A great debate on NYT about whether students should study aboard or not.  See the debate here.   When there are all sorts of quanti...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

Felix Martin: How the new economics outgrew the academies

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[Note by Yao: I just finished reading Dr. Brian Greene's The Hidden Reality , in which the author discussed beautifully the issues of m...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

The X Generation in China--- by James Palmer

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[I found this article quite true in its observations of who the 20 -to- 30 - years - old in China really are] The balinghou Chinese...
Thursday, February 7, 2013

The "Cloud" and Problems to Measurement in Economics of Education

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[Dear reader: please guess the content of the missing pics, they are equations and symbols. Mathjax script is forbidden by Blogger now, and ...
Sunday, January 27, 2013

2012 Columbia China Prospect Conference Education Panel

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[Note: I was invited to moderate the panel on education at the Annual China Prospect Conference at Columbia University in early November 201...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

Some updates about CHNS newest biomarker data

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[Forwarded from the UNC CHNS data center] Dear CHNS data users, Since we released the biomarker data collected in 2009, many users ...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Rethinking Higher Ed Open Online Learning More universities should develop high-quality online degree programs

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[Yao's note: This article by Gallagher is quite a good read, published today on USNEWS. Undoubtedly the trend for online learning...