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July 19, 2011

PISA – Measuring student success around the world

July 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio

See video at https://community.oecd.org/community/educationtoday/blog/2011/07/20/introduci... "This video will help you to understand why the OECD’s number-crunchers trigger such intense debate about the state of education around the world every t...

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July 20, 2011

Shodor and Sigma Xi team to provide workshops for middle and high school students

July 20, 2011/ Gary Riccio

See http://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/education/partner.shtml and http://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/education/partner.shodor.shtml and http://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/education/partner.ncsi.sxt.shtml ---------------------------------------------------...

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June 29, 2011

The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work

June 29, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Teresa Amabile (Author), Steven Kramer (Author) Now available at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/142219857X/ref=cm_li_v_cu_net?tag=linkedin-20 This is destined to be a classic! Editorial Reviews Product Description What really sets the best manag...

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June 28, 2011

Turnaround Schools

June 28, 2011/ Gary Riccio

See http://bcdechert.posterous.com/my-first-post As districts nationwide struggle to meet the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, the U.S. Department of Education has shifted its focus to turning around the nation's lowest-performing sch...

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June 28, 2011

America Abroad - Education Modules

June 28, 2011/ Gary Riccio

http://www.americaabroadmedia.org/education/index.html America Abroad Media’s Educational Outreach Initiative provides unique and high-quality multimedia content to enrich the instruction and understanding of international affairs in college and u...

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June 24, 2011

The Education Bubble, Tenure Envy, and Tuition

June 24, 2011/ Gary Riccio

HBR ideacast available at http://blogs.hbr.org/ideacast/2011/06/the-education-bubble-tenure-en.html

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June 22, 2011

The Second-Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect, and Accountability (Darwall, 2006)

June 22, 2011/ Gary Riccio

http://www.amazon.com/Second-Person-Standpoint-Morality-Respect-Accountabilit... "Call the second-person standpoint the perspective you and I take up when we make and acknowledge claims on one another's conduct and will... whether explicit and voi...

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June 22, 2011

RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

June 22, 2011/ Gary Riccio

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U?wmode=transparent]

 

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Gary Riccio

As a partner and as a consultant, I deliver value by identifying, aggregating, and developing previously undervalued assets--people and systems, internal and external, public and private, scientific and technical--for exceptional impact.

June 02, 2011

Conscious Culture through Educational Innovation

June 02, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Michael Strong at TEDx Chicago on The Creation of Conscious Culture through Educational Innovation. see also http://www.flowidealism.org/michael.html

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June 01, 2011

Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI)

June 01, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 01JUN2011 from http://www.state.gov/t/pm/ppa/gpoi/ The Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) addresses major gaps in international peace operations support. The program aims to build and maintain capability, capacity, and effectivene...

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May 20, 2011

Toward General Measures of Collective Intelligence

May 20, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Woolley, A.W., Chabris,C.F., Pentland, A., Hashmi, N., & Malone, T.W. (2010). Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups. Science, 330, 686-688. Downloaded from www.sciencemag.org on January 17, 2011

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May 20, 2011

Scientific Creativity and Knowledge Production: Theses, Critique, and Implications.

May 20, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Special Issue of Gifted and Talented International – 25 (1), August, 2010 available at http://www.ghassib.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/GTI-251-August-2010.pdf#page=8. Target Article Where Does Creativity Fit into a Productivist Industrial Model ...

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May 10, 2011

Securitas USA Announces New On-Line University

May 10, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Parsippany, NJ | 26 April 2011 Securitas Security Services USA, Inc. introduces the newly-created Securitas USA Online University, a state-of-the-art learning platform that fosters management development by incorporating instructor-led, online cou...

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April 19, 2011

Scientific American Blog on "The Military-Psychology Complex"

April 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio

can be found at http://tinyurl.com/43mmcg3

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April 19, 2011

Commentary #3 on Scientific American Blog on "The Military-Psychology Complex"

April 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio

As with science in general, science in the military is not limited to large research programs created by significant sources of Federal funding or to the hegemonic group-think they imply. There are and will continue to be a variety of investigatio...

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April 19, 2011

Commentary #2 on Scientific American Blog on "The Military-Psychology Complex"

April 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio

The initiative in Comprehensive Soldier Fitness reflects a much broader and historically more significant body of work to examine the effects of a profession of arms on individuals, their families, and their communities. See, for example, the Supp...

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April 19, 2011

Commentary #1 on Scientific American Blog on "The Military-Psychology Complex"

April 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio

The significant and contentious debate in the field of Anthropology has been primarily about observation-with-influence as opposed to observation-without-influence, the latter being a hallmark of that branch of scholarship. The helping professions...

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April 19, 2011

The Power of Small Wins by Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer (HBR, May 2011)

April 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio

The Idea in BriefWhat could be more important for managers than increasing their teams’ productivity? Yet most managers labor under misconceptions about what motivates employees—particularly knowledge workers—to do their best work.On the basis of ...

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February 11, 2011

Sophia Speira Dialogic | The Urgency of Choice in the Realm of Military Training and Education

February 11, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Check out this website I found at dialogic.sophiaspeira.net There is a strategic relationship between ISLETS and Sophia Speira Dialogic. Sophia Speira will be one source of stories that help ground our collaborative inquiry and give it immediate r...

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February 04, 2011

Special Issue of American Psychologist

February 04, 2011/ Gary Riccio

The January 2011 issue of American Psychologist is dedicated to "Comprehensive Soldier Fitness." The conjectures, claims, and evidence presented in this special issue are directly relevant to the long-term outcomes, associated intangibles, and int...

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