June 17, 2014
Categories: Access, E-learning, Education, Lessons
Alex Lizzappi’s insight: KA Lite is open-source software that mimics the online experience of Khan Academy for offline situations. Running KA Lite as a local server, you can watch Khan Academy videos, do Khan exercises, and track student progress — all without needing an Internet connection!
July 17, 2013
Categories: Access, Education, Lessons, Strategies, Teachers
Tags: English as Second Language, Links
Teaching a new language to non-native speakers may be one of the most challenging educational jobs out there, so ELL teachers can use all of the help they can get! Thankfully, many excellent resources for ELL and ESL exist online, from full-service websites to reference tools and communities, all designed to make the task of […]
February 5, 2011
Categories: Access, Economy, Natural Disaster
Tags: 2010 earthquake, immigration, Miami
New Influx of Haitians, but Not Who Was Expected – NYTimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/education/16winerip.html?_r=0 Miami JAN. 15, 2011 Last year after the earthquake in Haiti, Alberto M. Carvalho, superintendent of the Miami-Dade schools — the fourth-biggest district in the nation, with 345,000 students — expected to enroll thousands and thousands of survivors arriving from the devastated country. He […]
November 24, 2010
Categories: Access, Infrastructure
Tags: education and poverty, infrastructure
Caroline Begein, 15, center, prayed with other students at the nonpublic Collège Classique Féminin in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. CreditMichael Appleton for The New York Times PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — In mid-October, when fresh-faced girls in starched uniforms skipped through the gates of the Collège Classique Féminin to start the first post-earthquake school year, their desire to seek […]