Articles tagged with: education
More on Smart Cities
Last month, GeoCurrents wrote about a ranking of “smartest cities” in the U.S. published by the Business Journals website. Recently, a more direct metric for measuring the “brain performance” or cognitive capacity of various locales has become available.
Sexist Remarks by Ukrainian Politicians
The issue of gender stereotypes in Ukrainian society remains ignored. Last week this issue was brought to the fore in the Ukrainian press by sexist remarks made on May 17 by the country’s Minister of Education Dmitry Tabachnik.
And the Smartest U.S. Cities Are…
The Business Journals website has released a list of “smartest cities”. In this ranking, educational attainment in 269 U.S. urban centers with 100,000 or more residents were considered. Unsurprisingly, the top three spots are occupied by the three of America’s best-known college towns: Ann Arbor, Michigan; Cambridge; and Berkeley, California.
What will you have: oil or brains?
In a recent New York Times article, Thomas L. Friedman discusses a correlation between natural resource exploitation and human resources development. The correlation is negative: the more oil a country pumps or the more diamonds it digs, the lower its high school students score in standardized testing of math, science and reading comprehension skills.
Afghanistan’s Hazaras: Fears and Hopes
The restive Hazara region of Pakistan is not inhabited by the Hazara people, whose homeland, Hazarajat, lies instead in central Afghanistan. But the Hindkowans of Hazara and the Hazara of Hazarajat face some similar issues. Both have tense and sometime violent relations with the Pashtun people who live between them. And in both areas, development
Terranova: The Black Petaltail - A Novel
Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment, Development (5th Edition)
Globalization and Diversity: Geography of a Changing World (3rd Edition)
