The Olympics is one of the world's biggest marketing platforms and, as such, presents the private sector with a vast range of advertising opportunities. One new area of opportunity is school-based Olympic education. While previous studies have revealed some of the marketing strategies used by Olympic sponsors in Olympic education, there is still a…

An urban teacher highlighted cost of living to make mathematics instruction more meaningful and help students develop problem-solving strategies. Sixth graders created and operated their own businesses in class, learning how to depend upon themselves and budget their money as they faced realistic problems with budgets, bills, and sales. (Author/SM)

Management students taught basic business concepts to sixth graders and managed business projects with them. The management students applied knowledge of marketing, human resources, and operations management and developed reflective learning skills through project reports and coaching sessions. (SK)

The e-rater® system has been used by ETS for automated essay scoring since 1999. This paper describes a new version of e-rater (v.2.0) that differs from the previous one (v.1.3) with regard to the feature set and model building approach. The paper describes the new version, compares the new and previous versions in terms of performance, and…