Renaissance Learning Drills Down Into Student Success In School

How do we expect students to be ready for college-level work when more than half of them are reading 15 minutes or less a day beginning in first grade? That means that by 12th grade they have encountered 1.5 million words. Sounds like a lot of words until you consider that reading a half an hour or more a day translates into 13.7 million words by senior year.

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Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Accelerates HCM Reporting by over 80 Percent

Not many worldwide organizations have to quickly start a human resources (HR) system from scratch, but this is precisely what happened at Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise. Following M&A activities last year, the company, now a mid-sized, leading-edge telecommunications solutions provider, needed to quickly ramp up a new HR system for 2,800 employees in over 50 countries. Johannes Neumann, HR Project Manager at Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, was recently at the SAPPHIRE NOW + ASUG Conference, where he described why his company turned to SAP SuccessFactors.

“It was the first tool we brought in for the new company, and we couldn’t believe it would be possible to go live in just six months,” said Neumann. “But we were able to bring all employees in every country on the system, providing the master data that feeds all of our important systems to connect the layers with employee information.”

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Which Cities Have The Most Airbnb Listings? [Infographic]

Since it was founded in San Francisco in August 2008, Airbnb has developed a truly global presence. These days, the website boasts over 2 million listings in 191 countries around the world. Apartments and rooms are available in at least 34,000 cities, but which destinations are proving the most popular?

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