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Urban Buzz likely would not exist in Cape Coral and between Florida Gulf Coast University and Estero if not for a heart transplant.

How do economists measure the broader social impacts (economic growth, health outcomes, etc.) of schooling? Answer by Alex Eble, Professor at Columbia University

The newly minted university is just the latest institution attempting to reframe its image at a time of enrollment declines and public skepticism about higher education. What’s in a name? Apparently a lot for some higher ed institutions. “Names matter because they are a reflection of identity,” said DeRionne P. Pollard, president of Nevada State University, a regional public four-year institution that was called Nevada State College until last month. Students and alumni had been pushing for a name change for years before Pollard took the helm in 2022. She was open to the idea, but it was...

A few years ago, one of us (Abhijeet) wrote a cautionary note that the “standard deviation” measure in education evaluations in development economics was not typically comparable. That note was based on the informal observation that tests in development evaluations seemed to vary a lot from one study to the next. And, unlike the armies of psychometricians who design international assessments such as PISA, most development economists aren’t trained to create tests

Cape Coral's Urban Buzz will be opening a second location in Fort Myers on Colonial Boulevard. It will also be franchising stores in the future.