Common Core Woes, Tuition Costs, 3D Space Videos & More

Associate Vice President for Policy, OSU/OH-TECH
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Ohio Technology Consortium
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 12:33pm

Innovation Mercantilism's Dangerous Consequences for American Manufacturing (Industry Week): How a growing number of countries have embraced new protectionist trade policies that expand domestic innovation capacity and technology exports but could be harmful to the manufacturing industry in the long-run.

Tuition Increases Slow Down, but There's More to College Affordability (Chronicle): While U.S. Colleges and Universities are working to slow down tuition increases, there are issues aside from sticker prices that cause issue with college affordability.  

CACI partners with integrated modeling, simulation firm (Washington Technology): CACI International enters into a partnership with global modeling and simulation provider, No Magic Inc., to provide advanced system and software integration services to the Defense Department and federal market.

Common Core Reading Survey Shows Slow Start To Teaching Shift (Huffington Post): As schools move to implement the new Common Core standards, teachers are showing confusion on how to implement the new standards in their day-to-day tasks that will leave students finding the meaning in what they are learning.

Ohio trails Midwestern states in renewable energy generation (Columbus Business First): Ohio has been ranked last among 12 Midwestern states for electricity generation capacity from renewable energy sources, just as Ohio lawmakers review a bill aimed at altering the state’s renewable energy mandates.

Lunar explorer sets upload record, may pave way for 3D video from space (Cnet): An experiment aboard the LADEE lunar probe also clocked a download rate of 622Mbps as NASA pursues next-generation space communications.