The dynamics of today's world require a new approach to learning. Rather then tinkering with the current educational practices aiming at improving the situation, we should approach the current crisis of schooling from a completely different perspective. The need to learn how to learn and to provide multichannel learning opportunities through a variety of flexible delivery mechanism forms the ba...

We explore the extent to which schools manipulate the composition of students in the testtaking pool in order to maximize ratings under Texas’ accountability system in the 1990s. We first derive predictions from a static model of administrators’ incentives given the structure of the ratings criteria, and then test these predictions by comparing differential changes in exemption rates across stu...

In order to develop an innovation in a large, mature organization, individuals often have to go underground, secretly undertaking ?bootleg? R&D activities that have no formal organizational support. As yet, there have been few studies that examine how such efforts shape the ability of an individual to generate innovations for their organization. We argue that these underground R&D efforts will ...

Running parallel database systems in an environment with heterogeneous resources has become increasingly common, due to cluster evolution and increasing interest in moving applications into public clouds. For database systems running in a heterogeneous cluster, the default uniform data partitioning strategy may overload some of the slow machines while at the same time it may under-utilize the m...

This paper explores the ways in which gay males in college make meaning of gender variance and transgressions from the gender binary as a form of poverty. Using epistemological bricolage, the researchers analyzed data from 17 self-identified gay cisgender males attending three colleges in Southern California. Participants represented an array of racial backgrounds and were between 20 and 23 yea...

Many learners think of scientific reasoning as something that is done only in the classroom. We aim to develop long-term scientific programs outside of school, helping learners to see and do science in their everyday lives, where the science is not simple and fixed (or pre-packaged). Our challenge is to facilitate the development of a learning community for learners with a variety of interests ...