Khan Academy To Close Wealth Gap In College Test Prep

Khan Academy Gets Rare Partnership To Close Wealth Gap In College Test Prep | TechCrunch: "“So big picture success is that access to college (and success in life) becomes much less dependent on income and much more dependent on merit,” Khan Academy Founder, Sal Khan, writes to me. “We think we can make the playing field more level by making the best-in-class tool and making it free. We hope that beyond individual students, these tools become adopted by after-school and college readiness programs.”"

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Chromebooks and Education

Chromebooks and education: A perfect match | ZDNet: "What makes Chromebooks attractive to the Education market? There are many features and factors that make Chromebooks especially attractive to teachers and students:

Price; Security; Light weight and small form factor; Instant On; Ease of use; Web only applications; Personalization; Use of peripherals (mice, keyboards, monitors, SD cards, USB devices); Wireless networking; Large number of quality applications; Multimedia capability; Video conferencing; Management applications . . ." (read more at link above)

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Urban Magnet Schools Renewed

Magnet Schools Find a Renewed Embrace in Cities - NYTimes.com: "...Magnet schools never quite delivered on that desegregation promise, and in the past couple of decades they have largely fallen off the radar. But in this multiracial city (Miami) — and, increasingly, in other urban districts including Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Newark and Washington — public school leaders are refocusing on the idea as traditional public schools come under increasing pressure from charter schools and vouchers for private schools...."

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Education as the Civil Rights Issue of the 21st Century

RealClearMarkets - Education: The Civil Rights Issue of the 21st Century: " . . . Every special interest group claims to be battling on the grounds of civil rights, but none can make as strong of a case as the parents whose children are required to attend a failing school. These parents and their children have been discriminated against. Opponents of school choice have essentially declared minorities and those below the poverty line as unqualified to make decisions regarding their child's education. It is just astounding when you think about it. And it is this reason alone that allows many to declare school choice as the biggest U.S. civil rights issue of the 21st century. . . ."

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Hour of Code, Coding, STEM

'Hour of Code' STEM push drags us into reality | ZDNet: "Code.org wants to change the general attitude that the United States holds of coding. Only one in ten schools in the U.S. offer Computer Science classes, and many of these are electives rather than credit-based, and so there is little to entice students to pursue the subject as part of a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) career. The non-profit has been campaigning for this to change in order to make sure the next generation are trained in these areas, and the "Hour of Code" promotion is designed to improve awareness around the issue -- as well as provide basic instruction for interested students of any age."

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