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Shabbi Luthra

Gates and Pearson Foundations to Offer Online Courses - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Shabbi Luthra on 19 May 11
     
    "Two education foundations said Wednesday they are working to develop 24 new online reading and math courses that will be aligned with the common core standards. The courses will be developed by the Pearson Foundation -- associated with the major textbook company -- and will include video, social media, games and other digital materials. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will provide $3 million for four of the courses to be offered free to schools. The initiative appears to be the most ambitious effort so far to align textbooks -- online or otherwise -- with the new standards and may position Pearson as a leader in the market."
Blair Peterson

Brain scan: Making data dance | The Economist - 1 views

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  • that it no longer makes sense to consider the world as divided between developing and industrialised countries; and that people everywhere respond similarly to increasing levels of wealth and health, with higher material aspirations and smaller families. “There is no such thing as a ‘we’ and a ‘they’, with a gap in between,”
  • The best measure of political stability of a country, he believes, is whether fertility rates are falling, because that indicates that women are being educated and basic health services are being provided. “
  • Innovation in infographics has always been driven by the need to explain difficult things,
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  • Nightingale’s famous “coxcomb” chart from 1858 demonstrated that improving hygiene in British military hospitals slashed mortality rates. She said its design was intended “to affect thro’ the eyes what we fail to convey to the public through their word-proof ears.”
  • Twenty years later his word-proof students would get something altogether more dynamic than Nightingale’s pie charts to demystify global socioeconomic trends.
  • “It was a conscious intent to make the data look alive,”
  • “Statistics constitute a bulk of information that is surprisingly badly organised,”
  • The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands that every research project it funds has to make its full data set freely available, like open-source software code.”
  • “While nothing now can stop the surge to 9 billion, if the poorest 2 billion get improved child survival and the ability to buy bicycles and mobile phones, population growth will stop.
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