National Council of Teachers of Mathematics: Tides of Change: Teachers at the Helm

1993 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-68

Ten years ago, critics of our education system produced A Nation at Risk. Many charged that too little was being done to educate our youth. Standards were too low, and students were not prepared to embrace the challenges and opportunities of the world around us. As our nation rallied on the shoreline a anticipating the tides of change, one message rang out loud and clear: “We must change the education we provide our students today if we want to ensure their success in the future.”

1993 ◽  
Vol 86 (6) ◽  
pp. 515-520
Author(s):  
Mary M. Lindquist

Ten years ago, critics of our education system produced A Nation at Risk. Many charged that too little was being done to educate our youth. Standards were too low, and students were not prepared to embrace the challenges and opportunities of the world around us. As our nation rallied on the shoreline anticipating the tides of change, one message rang out loud and clear: “We must change the education we provide our students today if we want to ensure their success in the future.”


1993 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 467-476
Author(s):  
Mary M. Lindquist

Ten years ago. critics of our education system produced A Nation at Risk. Many charged that too little was being done to educate our youth. Standards were too low, and students were not prepared ro embrace the challenges and opportunities of the world arou nd us. As our nation rallied on the shoreline anticipatjng the tides of change. one message rang out loud and clear: “We must change the education we provide our students today if we want to e nsure their success in the future.”


2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 137-140
Author(s):  
Gemma Burke ◽  
Erin Duncan ◽  
JL Smither

Purpose The paper aims to show how using a resource-sharing service can help you provide more resources to your users. Design/methodology/approach This paper discusses interlibrary loan challenges and opportunities, specifically with reference to WorldShare Interlibrary Loan. Findings This paper describes the service that connects libraries to the largest cooperative resource-sharing network with more than 10,000 borrowing and lending libraries worldwide, the possibilities for the future, facts and figures and how libraries around the world have used the solution successfully. Originality/value This paper looks at how WorldShare Interlibrary Loan can help libraries overcome the challenges that they face regarding resource sharing.


2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Schiemann ◽  
Dave Ulrich

These are exciting and changing times in the world of business overall and for industrial–organizational (I-O) psychologists in particular. To anticipate where human capital professionals may add the most value to organizations in the future, we asked 73 leading academics, consultants, association leaders, and senior human resources (HR) leaders to articulate what HR professionals need to know and do to be successful in the future. The responses create unique insights on challenges and opportunities for I-O psychologists who want to have impact from their work. We summarize these insights into 7 themes and discuss their implications for an emerging I-O mandate.


1989 ◽  
Vol 82 (6) ◽  
pp. 470-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris M. Carl

Since A Nation at Risk was released five years ago, we have experienced a most serious and sustained national effort to improve education. That attention has been welcomed, and it requires our continued support.


2019 ◽  
pp. 748-772
Author(s):  
Thida Chaw Hlaing ◽  
Julian Prior

Statistical literacy presents many aspects about food security in the world. It highlights weaknesses, it creates awareness of threats in current situations, helps overcome challenges and creates opportunities for the future. Statistical data analysis enables existing food security interventions and programs to be reviewed and revised, and this better understanding of current situations enables more authoritative and relevant decision-making processes for the future. Statistical literacy involves skills and expertise in data description and interpretation (in words as well as in numbers) to name, explore and amend beliefs, opinions and suggestions. It helps decision-making processes about food security in a sub-nation, nation and region, as well as the world. This chapter will demonstrate the importance of open data and visualization, including its challenges and opportunities, in the food security context at national and global level to make decision-makers aware of the need to enhance their capacity for and investment in statistical literacy.


Author(s):  
Kenneth C. C. Yang ◽  
Daniel Torres ◽  
Angel Ramirez

The rapid development of multi-platform advertising has created a lot of unforeseeable challenges and opportunities for both traditional and new advertising and marketing communications agencies. In this book chapter, the authors examined the emergence of new agencies, their best practices, and their critical role in the development, planning and implementation of multi-platform advertising campaigns. The authors analyzed emerging advertising and marketing communications agencies, best practices, and effectiveness metrics to demonstrate how the transformation of, as well as the emergence, of the new advertising agencies has helped shape the future of multi-platform advertising practices around the world.


Author(s):  
Helena Fidlerová ◽  
Martina Porubčinová ◽  
Martin Fero ◽  
Ivana Novotná

Industry 4.0 and its effect on processes and people becomes reality with all organizational and technological complex implications for the future. States around the world including Slovakia face the challenge of defining strategy on how to convert the challenges of Industry 4.0 into competitive advantage. This chapter focuses on Work 4.0 competences development, analyzed in the level of enrichment of the human capital content as well as in the level of labor market polarization. The aim of this chapter is to present opportunities and threats in competence development regarding the concept of Intelligent Industry and discuss sustainable solutions in the context of National Action Plan of Intelligent Industry of Slovak Republic, looking for win-win strategy. The authors analyze differences in competences achieved via education system in Slovakia and expectations of industry. Special attention is given the situation in Slovakia, country-oriented on automotive and with strong cooperation with Germany as innovation leader in European countries, to find strategy within this no zero game.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-82
Author(s):  
Özer Bakar ◽  
Yavuz Soykan ◽  
Burcu Acar

Abstract Life insurance is a type of insurance that protects individuals or their relatives who are left behind after death or permanent injury. Although it is quite different from the diversity in the world, life insurance in Turkey, which also allows accumulation with providing death benefit, contribute to the tendency of people to save money. One of the reasons for slower development in life insurances in Turkey compared to the countries in the world stems from the education in the field of insurance. Indicators such as insufficient number of institutes and experts in the field and low ratio of insurance literacy are the outcomes of this inadequate education system. Hence, lack of education is directly connected with the level of students’ knowledge. The aim of this study, in which a cross-tabulated survey is used, is to measure the undergraduates’ knowledge level of basics of life insurance at the department of Insurance and Risk Management in Dumlupinar University. Results show that students who are taking education at the Dumlupinar University at the department of Insurance and Risk Management, have very low knowledge about basic life insurance. This study is important in determining the knowledge level of the students who will be in the insurance sector in the future and who will have an individual relationship with the customers.


2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cleusa Caldeira

RESUMO: O contexto hodierno está marcado pela violência intersubjetiva em escala planetária, que coloca em risco o futuro da humanidade e do planeta. Diante disso, somos levados a perguntar: haverá esperança para a humanidade? Onde está Deus diante do sofrimento do inocente? Estas questões requerem da teologia uma aproximação ao real, sem cair, contudo, na tentação de apelar para um resgate milagroso ou ficar paralisada frente ao nada. Antes, ela deverá pensar na contribuição do cristianismo entre a derrocada do sujeito moderno e a emergência da vulnerabilidade. Depara-se, pois, com a crise do humanismo moderno e a abertura à uma nova hermenêutica do humano como possibilidade de encontrar na kénosis outra maneira de ser-no-mundo em tempos de fragmentos. Nesse horizonte, apresentamos duas versões da narrativa cristã que tematizam outro modo de ser-no-mundo, na assunção da vulnerabilidade constitutiva da subjetividade, como caminho de redenção.ABSTRACT: Today’s context is marked by intersubjective violence on a planetary scale, which keeps the future of the humanity and the planet at risk. As a result, we are compelled to question: will there be a hope for the humanity? Where is God amidst the suffering of the innocents? These questions require from theology, a true approximation to the reality, without falling, however, into the temptation to look for a miraculous rescue or to be paralyzed in the pain of emptiness. Rather such questions should reflect upon the Christian contribution which throws light on the destructiveness of the modern subject and the emergence of the vulnerability. One finds, therefore, with the crisis of modern humanism and the openness to a new hermeneutic of the human, as a possibility of finding meaning in the kenosis, a different way of being-in-the-world in times of fragmentations. In this perspective, we present two versions of the Christian narrative that thematisize the other way of being-in-the-world, in the assumption of the constitutive vulnerability of the subjectivity, as a path of redemption. 


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