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• Education

  

  New Tool Helps Students Predict Their Student Loan Debt

  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Department of Education want to educate students about the financial implications of college.

  by Liz Dwyer

• Education

  

  This Inspiring Video Will Remind You Why You Love Learning

  Filmmaker Rick Mireki's new short film "Learn" is an inspiring, visual love letter to lifelong learning.

  by Liz Dwyer

• Education

  

  Student Video Contest Seeks to Spread the Word About the Real Cost of College

  The College Net Price Calculator Student Video Contest will award three prizes of $1,500 each.

  by Liz Dwyer

• News

  

  Inspiring Photos from the Facebook Group Behind Egypt's Revolution

  The Facebook group "We are all Khaled Said" has become a central news hub for Egyptian protesters. It also has some amazing photos.

  by Alex Goldmark

• Technology

  

  Learning Like Neo? Matrix-Style Learning Might Be Here

  A method called "decoded neurofeedback" may help people learn instantaneously

  by Liz Dwyer

• Business

  

  How Costs, Not Skepticism, Are Defeating Action on Climate Change

  Even Canadians are rejecting greenhouse gas limits. How can sustainability fans fight global warming?

  by Erica Grieder

• Business

  

  Should Your Office Hold Recess? A Contest for Playful CEOs

  Some of the most important business skills might start on the playground. A play promoting nonprofit is hunting for the most playful CEO in America.

  by Alex Goldmark

• Cities

  

  Portland's Enviable Tool Libraries

  Well, Portland does it again. It's now the first city to have three tool libraries. A tool library, for those who are new to the idea, is exactly...

  by Andrew Price

• Education

  

  Are Charter Schools Segregation Tools?

  Last week, the Civil Rights Project, a part of UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies released a report titled "Choice without...

  by Nikhil Swaminathan

• Culture

  

  Open Sourced Tools for Wired Museums

  Think museums are musty repositories of history? Think again. Major metropolitan museums are becoming petri dishes of innovation. Take the...

  by Rebecca McQuigg Rigal

• Education

  

  Why Twitter Is a Teacher's Best Tool

  The social media platform makes it easy to get instant ideas, links, and resources from a global community of educators.

  by Liz Dwyer

• Design

  

  Occupy Design: Visual Tools for the 99 Percent

  A new project is finding a way to connect protesters and designers.

  by Nona Willis Aronowitz

• Business

  

  From the Shareable Economy, the Tools to Rebuild

  By deliberately birthing “friend and favor” economies at the local level, the 99 percent can help to reinvent the American Dream itself.

  by Van Jones

• Business

  

  How Might We Use the Right Tools and Methods for the Task? 


  We recently met an organization who complained that it seemed as though evaluation methods are often simply an exercise in "checking the box"...

  by Johannes Seemann, Tatyana Mamut

• Business

  

  Choose Your Tools and Methods Wisely in Evaluation

  This post is a response to "How Might We Use the Right Tools and Methods for the Task?" Read more of the conversation here. "Right" means...

  by Rose Casey-Challies

• Environment

  

  Microsoft Tool to Help Ford's Electric Vehicles

  Although Microsoft is known for its software, most notably the Windows operating systems, the company is branching out into an unlikely...

  by Mother Nature Network

• Design

  

  3rd Ward: Giving Artists and Builders the Tools

  Brooklyn is awash with creative young people. But what is an aspiring furniture designer or digital artist to do without the right equipment?...

  by Andrew Price

• Cities

  

  Online Community Improvement Tool Launches in 25,000 Markets

  Our friends at SeeClickFix-an online tool for reporting pot holes, grafitti, and anything else that's making your neighborhood unpleasant-had a...

  by Zach Frechette

• Environment

  

  How Plants' Built-In Tools Could Help Them Adapt to Climate Change

  New research shows plants could have the tools to adapt and survive climate changes. But how will those changes affect us?

  by Sarah Laskow

• Environment

  

  Enter the "Waves for Change" Art Contest and Win a 10-Day Ocean Voyage

  Want to sail the seas of plastic pollution with 5 Gyres? Turn litter into art and enter this contest.

  by Ben Jervey