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Are international rankings unfair to U.S. colleges?
Monday, 09 Nov 2009 4:00AM
The United States spends more money on higher education than any other country, and its elite institutions are the world's best. But overall, conventional wisdom says, the system is wasteful, fails too many--and is falling behind other countries. Are these criticisms fair?...
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Education innovator Ted Sizer is dead at 77
Friday, 23 Oct 2009 11:15AM
Theodore R. Sizer, one of the country's most prominent and influential education-reform advocates, died on Oct. 21 at his home in Harvard, Mass., of colon cancer, reports the New York Times.
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Hawaii wins 50,000 free books in online competition
Tuesday, 06 Oct 2009 10:07AM
Hawaii residents submitted the highest number of online votes to win 50,000 free books for needy children in a recent national contest, reports the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
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San Francisco tapping into tech-savvy citizens
Monday, 05 Oct 2009 10:56AM
In a program that could serve as a model for schools and colleges to consider, San Francisco is encouraging its citizens to create software tools that use city data for the public good, AFP reports.
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Commentary: The avalanche of change
Friday, 02 Oct 2009 4:00AM
Default Lines from eSchool News, first published in print on Oct. 1, 2009-- Once every generation or so, something big takes place that alters education, and it's usually bad -- or so it must seem to most Americans. Key words: education reform, A Nation at Risk, education...
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ED announces student video contest
Wednesday, 23 Sep 2009 6:00AM
To get students invested in their education, President Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan have announced a new video contest, asking students to "inspire" them with their stories. Advocates for educational technology say the contest is a great way to reach the...
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'Why do we ... build public schools that look like prisons?'
Friday, 18 Sep 2009 10:05AM
The man responsible for turning around the worst high school in Los Angeles is not an educator. He is a charter school leader who challenged a large, established bureaucracy and won. But the keys to his success can be implemented from within any large school system just as...
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Bill Gates to dedicate Carnegie Mellon computer science center
Thursday, 10 Sep 2009 11:25AM
Bill Gates will share words of wisdom on Sept. 22 at the opening ceremony for a computer science center bearing his name at Carnegie Mellon University, the home of the nation's first such department in 1965, Computerworld reports.
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Technology issues prevent students from watching Obama's speech
Wednesday, 09 Sep 2009 11:29AM
In a scene that no doubt played out in many schools across the country, technological glitches prevented students and teachers at Baldwin Park High School east of Los Angeles from watching a much-talked about speech by President Barack Obama, reports the San Gabriel Valley...
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Is PSA on texting and driving too shocking?
Wednesday, 26 Aug 2009 9:42AM
A public service announcement on the dangers of texting while driving has been seen more than a million times on YouTube, but it's also aroused cries that it's too graphic to watch, writes CNET blogger Chris Matyszczyk.
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