September 2014

Tuva Labs | Explore Open Datasets

Begin digging into curated open datasets around a variety of topics including Sports, Culture, International Development, Health, Education, and your own Community. Source: tuvalabs.com #haiti #education #teachers @haitinoworg Begin digging into curated open datasets around a variety of topics including Sports, Culture, International Development, Health, Education, and your own Community.  

Never Diet Without a Bathroom Scale and Mirror: The Case for Combining Teacher Evaluation and the Common Core

Given the nature of the job, school superintendents are master jugglers.  Even so, implementing new teacher evaluation systems has been a massive challenge for many of them, because of the demands such a system places on principals, the strain it exerts on labor relations, the inherent difficulty of creating a new vocabulary to describe effective …

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The MOOC Revolution That Wasn’t | TechCrunch

Three years ago this week, Sebastian Thrun recorded his Stanford class on Artificial Intelligence, released it online to a staggering 180,000 students, and started a “revolution in higher education.” Soon after, Coursera, Udacity, and others promised free access to valuable content, supposedly delivering a disruptive solution that would solve massive student debt and a struggling economy. …

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