Education Guide

Analyzing the Mean Center of Population for the USA and for Individual States, Updated for ArcGIS 10 and Census Year 2010

A new lesson, entitled “Population Drift: Mean Center Analysis 1790-2010” in the ArcLessons library ), invites students to use spatial analysis, spatial statistics, and GIS to determine and analyze the population centers of the USA and individual states over space and time, from 1790 to 2010. This lesson was recently updated to include 110 in-depth questions, a very rich set of data including the new 2010 county population figures, and to use the powerful spatial statistics tools in ArcGIS 10.

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Tags: Mean Center, Usa

Kickoff for the Cocoa vs. Dr. Phillips spring football game is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. The bad news is the weather doesn’t look good at the moment. An official here who just checked the weather said thunderstorms are predicted for right around the planned start of this game. Let’s hope not.

I should mention that I am at Dr. Phillips High School. And if you haven’t been here before — this is my first time — it’s right across from Universal Studios. Looking out the press box window, I see the Harry Potter ride.

Due to weather , the game will be started early. Kickoff should be about 7:05 or 7:10 p.m.

Be sure to wave at Bo Brown!

Cocoa won the toss and has deferred. Dr. Phillips will receive the ball.

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Tags: Cocoa Vs, Phillips, Spring Football

You can browse Accepted.com (or the internet at large) for an endless number of MBA resume tips on formatting and designing your resume. In this post, we’re going to provide three essential tips on how to present the content of your resume.

Before we outline the three tips, though, it’s important to understand what your MBA resume is and what purpose it serves in the MBA application process.

The MBA resume is first and foremost an outline of your educational and employment history. It is not a place to talk about your personal life, your MBA goals, or your hobbies. In many cases, your MBA resume serves as the adcom’s first impression of you, and as such, you should make sure that it is short, thorough, and well-written.

And now for the three tips on content:

1.      Be specific – Your job descriptions should include quantifiable data that illustrate your performance in the position. Instead

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If you’ve spent any time at all on this blog, you’ve been treated—OK, subjected—to occasional rants about mainstream education reform’s blind spot on curriculum and instruction.  Teaching is a management issue; something to be measured by standardized tests.  And curriculum?  Hey, in the hands of a great teacher, every curriculum is great.  Or something like that.  With charters to build, tests to administer and performances to judge reformers remain largely agnostic, incurious or just plain indifferent about what happens inside the classroom.  This myopia informs policy:  Race to the Top enshrined 19 different fixes for American schools.  Curriculum didn’t make the cut.  If you were in charge of fixing America’s schools, could you find 19 things for your To Do list before you get around to curriculum? Seriously?  

A fascinating

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• According to The Daily Pennsylvanian (“Majority of Class of 2015 a Minority”), minority students comprise a majority of the newly admitted class for the first time ever at the University of Pennsylvania.  The prospective class of 2015 is made up of 52 percent self-identified minorities, which the admissions office defines as Asian, black, Latino and American Indian. Dean of Admissions, Eric Furda, also explained: “the growing diversity of Penn’s applicant pool has made it increasingly important for student hopefuls to elaborate on their cultural background.”  In the future, students will have to do more than just “check a box” in order to define their roots.
• A column in Unigo (“Students ask, Experts answer”) teaches prospective students what to look for when visiting potential future colleges. Some of the expert ad

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