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DIY Learning: How Do We Make College Free (or Extremely Affordable)?
The book DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education is being turned into webisodes.
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The Google Teacher Academy Helps Teachers Bring Tech Innovations Into the Classroom
Google's Academy is training teachers to use new technology in education. It's a model that more tech companies would be smart to copy.
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Ed Tech: One of These Ideas Might Be the Next Big Thing to Make Learning Easier
Here are five smart business ideas that use technology to solve education challenges.
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Do We Need to Ditch High-Stakes Testing to Compete with China?
Forget memorization and do-or-die, high-stakes testing. China's ditching those old schooling methods. Just as we're using them more than ever.
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What Parents Aren’t Asked in School Surveys—and Why
Making data-driven education reform decisions is great — unless the results come from flawed questions.
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Why Isaac Asimov Would Be Ashamed of Los Angeles' Schools
The brilliant writer and scientist was a champion of libraries. He might have a few choice words for LAUSD's decision to get rid of its librarians.
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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.
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Why Schools Should Embrace the Maker Movement
What better way to get students interested in math, science, and design than helping them build a robot or go-kart?
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Would a Laptop for Every Student Help? In Maine It Certainly Did
Since 2001, Maine's invested in laptops for every student. Now they're leading the world in tech education.
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Apple's Genius Idea: Donating Your Old iPad to Teach For America Classrooms
iPads are extremely useful educational tools, so it's nice that Apple is helping to funnel used first-generation models to schools that need them.
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Austrian National Library: A Model for the 21st Century?
The stunning design for an extension of Austria's National Library is a 21st century learning space that's visually inspiring and multifunctional.
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The Evolution of College-going Gear
From the textbook to the laptop to the iPad, what will tomorrow's college student be using? A look back at how far we've come in terms of innovation.
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College Is Only Good for Helping Rich People Get Richer
College: where already advantaged youths spend four years enjoying themselves and then receive considerable rewards for having done almost nothing.
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Should Graduate Degrees Be Earned on Facebook?
30,000 users have tested out the Facebook Global M.B.A. degree. Would you enroll?
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Why Standardized Tests Kill the Joy of Learning
How bureaucracy in education is failing our children, one standardized test at a time.
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Slate's Classroom of the Future
The online magazine announces the winner of its contest to re-imagine where learning takes place.
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Dear Teacher: I Quit
A teacher helps his students make fewer mistakes in their own lives by sharing with them some of his own.
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Why Tests and Quizzes Are Good For You
Remember those pop quizzes you hated in high school? Turns out they actually made you learn better.
