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Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern For Others And The Common Good Through College Admissions
Making Caring Common's report with recommendations for reducing achievement pressure and leveling the playing field in college admissions.
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Richard Branson on The End of Average
Richard Branson talks about Professor Todd Rose's book The End of Average and refers to his own experience as a high school dropout.
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6 Education Stories To Watch In 2016
The long, grueling fight to overhaul the 14-year-old No Child Left Behind law is over, but that'll turn out to be the easy part.
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What was the recipe for Le Cordon Bleu's US school closings?
It was announced this week that the culinary school is closing its doors in the US. Are American culinary students better off in a classroom or restaurant kitchen?
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Think about it: why budding philosophers shouldn't sit exams
Formal tests can’t measure complex ideas and creative thinking – so the University of Essex has ditched them altogether
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Kids can teach themselves
Speaking at LIFT 2007, Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own -- and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves?
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Common Core takes a hit: N.Y. Gov. Cuomo’s task force recommends overhaul
Gov. Cuomo's task force calls for change in standards and testing.
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Love Gov: An Education in Debt
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Build a School in the Cloud
Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other -- using resources and mentoring from the cloud. Hear his inspiring vision for Self Organized Learning Environments, and learn more at ted.com/prize.
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Sal Khan: Rethinking Education
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Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms
In this talk from RSA Animate, Sir Ken Robinson lays out the link between 3 troubling trends: rising drop-out rates, schools' dwindling stake in the arts, and ADHD. An important, timely talk for parents and teachers.
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