High School For The Next 15 Years
Projections released today by The Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education show that the number of high school graduates in the US will peak at 3,340,000 in 2007-08, decline modestly to 3,189,000 in 2013-14, and then rebound to near its 2007 level (3,362,000) in 2021-22.  But underneath those placid […]

A Grammy in Mathematics
University of New Hampshire mathematician Kevin Short won a Grammy last week for developing an algorithm that helped a team of audio technicians restore the only recording of Woody Guthrie performing before a live audience. The wire recording was severely damaged and took more than a year to transfer into a […]

Flower Bulb Science
There is nothing like a pot of tulips in the middle of winter to inspire young scientists. The Bulb Project is a new website that shows K-12 educators how to use flower bulbs to teach science, art, and history. It is also the subject of the next NSDL Web Seminar Series, which will […]

DLESE Finds A New Home
A pioneer in the online delivery of educational resources has found a new home.  Earlier this month, the National Science Foundation announced that the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) will be maintained by The National Center for Atmospheric Research.  NCAR’s library will assume development and curation responsibilities for DLESE, […]

ARL to Educators: Go Ahead, Mash Up
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/educationalfairusetoday.pdf
Three recent court decisions should reassure educators who wonder whether it is legal for them to re-use copyrighted material. In a paper released last month by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Jonathan Band explains recent legal decisions that permit extensive copying and display of copyrighted material on […]

New Collections Development Policy

NSDL’s Policy Committee has approved a new organizational document on collections development. The document describes NSDL’s mission; the communities it serves; resource ownership, management, and description; the scope of collections; quality guidelines; responsibility for selection, accessioning and de-accessioning collections; and terms of participation. The new policy and the Contribute Resources and […]

All-Time High For Science Ph.Ds
U.S. institutions awarded 29,854 science and engineering doctorates in 2006, the fourth consecutive year of increase. All-time high numbers of doctoral degrees were awarded in biological sciences, computer sciences, mathematics, chemistry, social sciences, and engineering, according to the NSF’s annual Survey of Earned Doctorates. However, nearly half (45%) of […]

What Happened at the Annual Meeting?
NSDL’s Annual Meeting last week attracted 200 passionate digital omnivores who learned about 117 projects by viewing 59 posters and attending 34 sessions in less than two days in Arlington, VA. Remnants from that intellectual explosion can be viewed at the meeting’s home page, which contains the program, abstracts of […]

Can Cockatoos Really Dance?

Snowball the Cockatoo stomps and shakes his feathers to a song by the Back Street Boys in a video on YouTube. He has done it more than one million times since the clip went up last month. But is Snowball responding to the music, or to its […]

Shodor Honored by Cisco and ALA
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Shodor Inc., the NSDL Pathways partner for computational science, has been awarded the grand prize for nonprofit organizations in Cisco Inc.’s annual Growing with Technology Awards. “We’re honored to receive this national distinction for our work,” said Dr. Robert Panoff, president and executive director. “We started in 1995 with […]