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Educated but mediocre
Great piece from the Atlantic explaining the widening income and education gap. Across the country, a Stanford University study found last year, the achievement gap between rich and poor students on standardized tests is 30 to 40 percent wider than it was … Continue reading
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Cost of public higher education
This piece from the Wall Street Journal using Univ of Colorado as an examples summarizes issues in the rising cost of public higher education.
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Flickr Upgrade
When you write a book for the education technology market (no matter the traditional or the ebook approach), you have to take some risks in selecting apps, learning experiences, etc. You can spend a lot of time explaining apps or … Continue reading
Save To Drive
Google offers some very interesting and useful extensions for the Chrome browser. A new extension allows a user to collect images to Drive by right clicking on an image. The image is saved within seconds. I would have one … Continue reading
Scrooge weighs in – a comment on teacher salaries
I am passing on the link to a post regarding teacher salaries from Louis Caruso. His comment regarding “gender shifts” is interesting: More women are entering the fields of education and healthcare than men while male graduates are outnumbering their … Continue reading
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Age appropriate “news”
This is really cool. A Canadian company (Teaching Kids News) has created a site populated with current news stories written at grade levels (you can use the tags to find stories for second grade, 8th grade, etc.). Take a look … Continue reading
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