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Top 10 Twitter Education Feeds

May 14, 2009

ShareThere are thousands of incredibly well educated, leaders in their respective fields tweeting on Twitter everyday. Follow some of these people and it’s like you’re getting an online degree for free.
Top 10 list of  Twitter’s professors, teachers, and other educators.:

@therefore: Read @therefore’s tweets to learn about emergent communications and new media.
@mweller: @martinweller is an Open [...]

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The New School in Exile

December 19, 2008

ShareIt seems that the students over at The New School are taking this whole “change” thing pretty effing literally.
Students have occupied part of the campus in what was initially, and still for the most part is, a peaceful protest of the administration of their school.  It seems they are very nonplussed at the idea of [...]

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President-elect Obama Lays Out His Plan to Make the Internets Better

December 6, 2008

ShareIt’s pretty freaking cool that we have President that not only knows, but realizes how important it is that the United States is ranked 15th in world broadband adoption.  He promises to bring broadband to schools and hospitals across the country.

That’s all well and good but let’s home he also deals with the fact that [...]

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I am so smart, S M R T…I mean S M A R T

November 11, 2008

ShareOver 42 million American adults are illiterate.  Sad.

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No Rich, White Child Left Behind

March 8, 2004

ShareI wonder if this is what Bush had in mind when he signed the No Child Left Behind Act.
On a winter night in 2002, after her family was evicted from their Bronx apartment, there was no room for her with relatives who had taken in her mother and four younger siblings. For two nights she [...]

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