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Getting Schooled On Starting A Business By DonorsChoose.org's Charles Best

"It's about being shameless and relentless and hustling for the first users and for the first partners," says Best. "That takes both sort of an energy and a humility."READ»

Crowdsourcing Education Innovation, For Cash

One of the largest educational publishers in the world is offering cash prizes to the winners of a crowdsourced learning product innovation competition.READ»

What The Scandal Of "Three Cups of Tea" Author Greg Mortenson Is Really About

Forget lying in a memoir, we should be talking about what it means that Mortenson's Central Asia Institutes in Pakistan and Afghanistan are failing.READ»

Hacking Education: DonorsChoose.org Wants to See if Teachers Know Best

The crowdsourced educational funding org wants to see if the items teachers request can reveal secrets about what our education system needs.READ»

The iPad Goes Back to School: This Time It's a Georgia Senator Who Wants to Replace Textbooks With Apple's Product

The iPad may soon be lightening the load of middle-school students in Georgia. Could such a move further complicate the state's stance on teaching evolution?READ»

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Former Lehman Banker Leads Social Ventures in China, Battles Dyslexia in Schools

Yvonne Li's Avantage Ventures is investing in high-impact social programs throughout Asia--and she'd like other big-time bankers to join her.READ»

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Innovation Agents: Ian Rowe, CEO of Public Prep

Rowe's journey took him from the Gates Foundation to MTV and The White House USA Freedom Corps before he became the CEO of Public Prep, a network of non-profit single-sex charter schools.READ»

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The United States Is Losing Its Innovative Edge: Report

Education, in particular, threatens the state of innovation in America.READ»

Mark Zuckerberg Now Richer, More Philanthropic Than Steve Jobs

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is deliriously rich--richer than the Apple CEO, even--and contrary to what a certain movie might tell you, is charitable enough to donate $100 million to Newark schools.READ»

Redesigning Education: Building Schools for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math

The four disciplines, known as STEM, have been deemed crucial to American competitiveness. How can we design our schools so students want to learn about them?READ»

Fish Play Follow-the-Leader With Robofish, to Save Them From Turbine Doom

Scientists have discovered that real schools of real fish can be steered along by artificial robot fish. Weird. But the news has big implications for green power production. NYU-Poly's Dynamical Systems Laboratory, using the ...READ»

Google Attacks Linked to Chinese Schools With Ties to Government, Search Competitors

The source of the attacks on Google and other American corporations has been traced to two schools in China, both of which are heavily implied to be covers for the Chinese government and Baidu, the dominant search engine in China ...READ»

Update: Michelle Rhee vs. the D.C. Teachers' Union

Eighteen months after we profiled Washington, D.C., schools chancellor Michelle Rhee ("The Iron Chancellor," September 2008), she still hasn't won union approval of a new contract. After the October layoffs of 266 teachers and staff, ...READ»

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The Argument for Kindles in Schools

Yesterday I wrote about the Kindle's tepid reception on the Princeton campus, and suggested that the device might not be ready for educational use. But pilot programs at other schools, involving both Kindles and iPhones, have ...READ»

Northern Power Systems Turns Wind Energy into an Educational Experience

Northern Power Systems unveiled a community wind power package for schools earlier this week at WINDPOWER 2009 featuring a turbine meant for school use and an accompanying educational package. As part of the package, schools ...READ»

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Brazil Greens-up Educational PC Project by Virtualizing

Brazil's government is about to create the world's largest desktop virtualization project, in schools across the entire country. And it's not just a move to advance educational computing for the country's kids while saving cash--it's ...READ»