Now that Cuba has caught the eye of foreign investors and the international community, it is a good time to reignite discussion on Cuba's reintegration into the global economy. As with so many other countries before, the critical first step will be to regain access to the international financial...

The economy of Cyprus was barely affected by the U.S. subprime mortgage debacle. The economic crisis in Cyprus was initially driven by fiscal mismanagement and subsequently by the failure of the government and its regulatory branches to monitor the imprudent behavior and risky investment actions...

Haiti, once the largest eighteenth-century economy in the Caribbean under French colonial rule, is now the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere and one of the poorest in the world. A broken financial system is partially to blame. We provide an in-depth examination of the state of financial...

There is a growing interest in ongoing and just-in-time professional development (PD) opportunities that are delivered online for teachers who are implementing new curricula. We report on our efforts to build a multi-approach ongoing, online PD program that responds to teachers' emergent needs...

Curricular interventions that embed blended learning technologies and pedagogies should support teachers’ everyday practice. However, teachers’ perspectives of what is happening “in the trenches” are often not systematically considered when evaluating curriculum and PD goals. Responsive...

In this study, we examined the effects of participation in a self-paced, online teacher professional development (oTPD) program to support the implementation of the GlobalEd 2 problem-based curriculum. We report on the effects on self- reported teacher knowledge as a result of the oTPD program...