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Archive: November, 2009

East Palo Alto Academy: New Models for K-12 Reform

Stanford’s K-12 East Palo Alto charter schools provide quality education to underserved students at the same time they train teachers and educational leaders to succeed where they are needed most. Recorded 2008. Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP): suse-step.stanford.edu The Stanford Challenge: thestanfordchallenge.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube www.youtube.com

NCERT Online

NCERT goes online! The NCERT textbooks can now be viewed online. Even a decade back something like this would have been difficult to imagine.
The NCERT was set up way back in 1961 by the Government of India as an autonomous organization to assist and advise the centre and state on policies related to [...]

ED Stakeholders Forum: Promoting Innovation and Reinventing the Federal Role (October 21, 2009)

This meeting focused on “Promoting Innovation and Reinventing the Federal Role,” and featured panelists Warren Simmons of The Annenberg Institute for School Reform, Stacey Childress of the Harvard Business School, and Susan Patrick of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning.

John E. Hamilton’s magic school assembly ideas! K-12 education

Award-winning school assembly program “Making RIGHT Choices” www.hamiltonmagic.net John Hamilton gets kids attention with MAGIC and challenges students to make right choices for success in school and in LIFE! www.gigmasters.com/magic/JohnEHamilton

Using Gentoo Linux in K-12 School’s Computer Lab

GHCA recently updated all their computers to run the Gentoo distribution of the Linux operating system. This video interviews system administrator Michael Surran, exploring the details as to why the school switched to Gentoo and how Gentoo is used to improve productivity and functionality. Of particular interest is the use of distributed compiled computing (distcc) [...]