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Neurodiversidad y educación especial
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Europa busca atraer a investigadores de EEUU
Ready to Go Expat? Britain, Canada, France and Germany all launch funding programs to recruit foreign researchers. Will they succeed in capitalizing on perceptions of the U.S. as a less attractive place for research? By Elizabeth Redden July 26, 2017 Fancy moving...
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By Natasha Singer, June 6, 2017 In San Francisco’s public schools, Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, is giving middle school principals $100,000 “innovation grants” and encouraging them to behave more like start-up founders and less like bureaucrats. In...
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Lucro y no-lucro en una universidad de los EEUU
UNITED STATES A monstrous muddle of no-profit and for-profit HE Liz Reisberg and Philip G Altbach, University World News, 12 May 2017 Issue No:459 Purdue University, an institution among America’s most respected research universities, has announced it is buying the...
USA: Educación, clases sociales y elecciones
The Political Failure of Bidenomics Feb. 22, 2024 By David Brooks Opinion Columnist After Hillary Clinton’s defeat in...
USA: guerras culturales y políticas educacionales
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