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To improve its public schools, the United States should raise the status of the teaching profession by recruiting more qualified candidates, training them better and paying them more, according to a new report on comparative educational systems.

Can you imagine telling a kid to stop spending so much time on algebra? Or not to go overboard on researching historical sources? Sounds like pure fantasy, but that could become the new reality if we have the courage to discard an outdated teaching methodology that doesn't reach today's students, and instead embrace their bustling, burgeoning digital world.

But, how do you have every student present and not sacrifice class time for other activities? 

Present.me is a new online tool for recording and sharing presentations. Unlike other presentation and video capturing tools, Present.me allows presenters to share their presentation slideshow and a video of them presenting at the same time.