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Programming ed tech startup, General Assembly, sells to Adecco for $413 million | TechCrunch ow.ly/VkJP30jx0u3

New York's programming ed tech startup, General Assembly, sells to Adecco for $413 million |...

The European human resources services company Adecco Group said that is acquiring the New York-based, programming, design, and management training startup

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Google unveils new Chrome OS tablets right before Apple shows off its new hardware — Quartz ow.ly/hrO630jb9IX
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The forgetting curve explains why learning is hard — Quartz ow.ly/S82U30iMxJ5
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“There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.” —George Washington, Address to Congress, January 8, 1790 HT @sciam
In Children's Storybooks, Realism Has Advantages : NPR ow.ly/j1N630erQq9
Learning to Learn: You, Too, Can Rewire Your Brain - The New York Times ow.ly/Jcfa30ealo8
The Silicon Valley Billionaires Remaking America’s Schools - @nytimes ow.ly/ZXD230col33 @natashanyt

The Silicon Valley Billionaires Remaking America’s Schools (Published 2017)

They are influencing what students learn, and how teachers teach — with millions of children serving as de facto beta testers for their ideas.

nytimes.com
Test time in china "Prayers before China's "gaokao" exam season" | Reuters ow.ly/Od3o30cojgj
How Video Games Amplify Learning - DML Central ow.ly/Zp6A30c2rlO
On assessment tests video games players outperformed those who didn’t use games & just had traditional instruction ow.ly/UQ3X30c2qMQ
How Google Took Over the Classroom - The New York Times ow.ly/fceh30bGY0d
The Myth of the College Dropout | Observer ow.ly/q7cF30bondk @JonathanLWai

The Myth of the College Dropout

While the media glamorizes famous college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, the reality is that most successful people in the U.S. went to – and finished – college.

observer.com
Microsoft Looks to Regain Lost Ground in the Classroom - The New York Times ow.ly/2OZ430bmX5X
Hadi Partovi Started Code.org To Introduce All Students, Especially Girls, To Computer Science ow.ly/ND3N30aYQ9Y
How Do Massively Open Online Courses Compare To In-Person Instruction For Learning Programming? ow.ly/LMxt30aIUeY
New York State reaches deal to provide free tuition for SUNY and CUNY students ow.ly/qPJM30aIU10

New York State reaches deal to provide free tuition for SUNY and CUNY students

insidehighered.com
Where Non-Techies Can Get With the Programming - The New York Times ow.ly/vpeM30aAsou
Who Needs Charters When You Have Public Schools Like These? - The New York Times ow.ly/QsjJ30avEFu
A New Kind of Jobs Program for Middle America, Code Schools - WSJ ow.ly/6U4n309orqG

A New Kind of Jobs Program for Middle America

Code schools and boot camps that teach programming skills, such as Zip Code Wilmington, prove they can retrain American workers for the 21st century.

wsj.com
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Pearson Posts $3.3 Billion Loss as It Faces Down U.S. Collapse | Fortune.com ow.ly/MWcD309mzZb
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