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‘Virtual’ head teachers benefit children in care
Posted by wideant in Social Sciences on March 12, 2010
New research from the School for Policy Studies shows that ‘virtual’ head teachers significantly raise the priority of education and outcomes for children in care, who are often less successful at school than other pupils.
This is due to a complex range of factors that might include an unstable family background, shortcomings in the care environment, low expectations and poor communication between social workers, carers and schools.
The ‘virtual school heads’ (VSH) initiative appointed a senior employee within a local authority with the responsibility of overseeing and co-ordinating educational services for children in care. Children in care attend a range of local schools but the role of the VSH was to improve educational standards as if they were attending a single school. Read the rest of this entry »
Study shows US lags behind in transit safety programs for female riders
Posted by wideant in Social Sciences on March 6, 2010
A new study by UCLA professor Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris documents the gap between women’s transit safety needs and programs in the U.S. that respond to them.
Desolate bus stops and train cars, dimly lit parking structures, and overcrowded mass transit vehicles all represent stressful settings for many women. In a new study, UCLA’s Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris examines the gap between women’s well-documented transit safety needs and programs in the U.S. that respond to them. Read the rest of this entry »
UCSD Experts Calculate How Much Information Americans Consume
Posted by wideant in Social Sciences on March 5, 2010
U.S. households consumed approximately 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008, according to the “How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers,” released today by the University of California, San Diego. One zettabyte is 1,000,000,000 trillion bytes, and total bytes consumed last year were the equivalent of the information in thick paperback novels stacked seven feet high over the entire United States, including Alaska.
The How Much Information? project is creating a census of the world’s information in 2008. The study measured information consumed by U.S. consumers in and outside the home for non-work related reasons, and included the gamut of information sources, including going to the movies, listening to the radio, talking on the cell phone, playing video games, surfing the Internet, and reading the newspaper, among other things. Read the rest of this entry »