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Handing Out Laptops in School Isn't Enough—Teachers Need Training, Too
New research shows a laptop program in Peru hasn't improved test scores.
Business
One Minute Until Impact: Charles Kane on Gaining Capital to Grow
"Getting access to capital in a nonprofit status is incredibly difficult."
Business
How Not to Save the World, or Why the LifeStraw Is a Stupid Idea
Kevin Starr of the Mulago Foundation gives an eye-opening talk, eviscerating several of the most darling ideas in economic development.
Education
Are MBAs Ditching Investment Banking for Social Entrepreneurship?
Gordon Gekko would be shocked: Social entrepreneurship is hot at business schools.
Education
Go Ahead, Give a Kid a Laptop and Walk Away
At this past weekend's Techonomy Conference 2010 in Lake Tahoe, One Laptop per Child Founder Nicholas Negroponte answered a fundamental question...
Education
OLPC Extends Hand to India and Its $35 Tablet
Late last week, Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of One Laptop per Child (OLPC), invited the Indian Ministry of Human Resource...
Education
India Develops $35 Tablet for Its Schools
India may have just introduced a new threat to both the One Laptop Per Child's $100 XO Laptop and Apple's iPad: a $35 touchscreen tablet PC...
