The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reports unemployment reached its highest level among industrialized nations of 8.5 percent in July.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

But,the Web site Internet Movie Database reports that the book is already "in development" to be a movie.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

Immigration specialist Georges Lemaitre, of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, is not surprised by these reports.

VOA: standard.2010.01.20

UN's Conference on Trade and Development reports that sub-Saharan Africa's exports of manufactured goods have risen by an average of just under 6% a year since 1980, less than half the figure for Asia's developing economies .

ECONOMIST: Africa's economy

In another new development, Laframboise reports that IPCC lead author Andrew Weaver has dropped all pretense of political and scientific objectivity and is now running for political office in Canada representing the Green Party ().

FORBES: About Global Warming, United Nations Doubles Down On Ignorance

Fortunately, in a development that Keeping Pace reports on but is not highlighted in the eSchool News article, Idaho did pass a measure that allows students to earn credit by demonstrating subject mastery instead of only being allowed to earn credit through seat time.

FORBES: Notable online learning developments in 2010 not all positive ones