Category: Education
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Cristo Rey: Schools that work
Faith & Leadership: Cristo Rey: Schools that work With demanding academics and an innovative work-study program, Cristo Rey Catholic schools have thrived, sending thousands of disadvantaged students to college and creating a new and sustainable model of Catholic education. … Today, 6,900 students, mostly Hispanic and African-American, are enrolled in Cristo Rey Network schools in…
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Elite Soccer Players Are Smarter Than You Are
Wired: Elite Soccer Players Are Smarter Than You Are Elite soccer players are smarter than you are, and the sharpest of them score more often than dimmer teammates. Top-tier players think more clearly, quickly and flexibly than non-players, and there is a correlation between cognitive ability and the number of goals and assists a soccer…
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Instruction for Masses Knocks Down Campus Walls
New York Times: Instruction for Masses Knocks Down Campus Walls … Welcome to the brave new world of Massive Open Online Courses — known as MOOCs — a tool for democratizing higher education. While the vast potential of free online courses has excited theoretical interest for decades, in the past few months hundreds of thousands…
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OpenStax College plans free textbooks for popular college courses
Kurzweil: OpenStax College plans free textbooks for popular college courses The Rice University-based open-education platform Connexions today unveiled a bold plan to shake up the $4 billion college textbook industry by providing free online publisher-quality textbooks for five of the country’s most-attended college courses. The OpenStax College textbook initiative, which is funded by the William…
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The Three Laws of Future Employment
New Geography: The Three Laws of Future Employment … Let’s start with the three Laws of Future Employment. Law #1: People will get jobs doing things that computers can’t do. Law #2: A global market place will result in lower pay and fewer opportunities for many careers. (But also in cheaper and better products and…
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Stanford Professor Gives Up Teaching Position, Hopes to Reach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Stanford Professor Gives Up Teaching Position, Hopes to Reach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up … Sebastian Thrun, a research professor of computer science at Stanford, revealed today that he had given up his teaching role at the institution to found Udacity, a start-up offering low-cost online classes. He made the…