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A really long long piece

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"Over their careers, full-time, full-year workers whose highest degree is a bachelor's make 74 percent more, on average, than those whose highest attainment is a high-school diploma, the authors found. When those with more than a bachelor's degree are included, the premium for higher education rises to 84 percent."

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TED seems to be evolving into a global education paltform

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A very interesting list of experiments that'll make you look & think very differently at yourself and the world around you.

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Independent learners make up around half of the user base & MIT is fine tuning their approach. Quite a few interesting use cases too.
"OCW must also develop a sustainable funding model. MIT currently covers about half the cost of OCW publication, and gran

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Interesting and simple way to look at conditional probability. Would also be interesting to relate it to octopus Paul & his WC 2010 predictions.

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Interesting concept catering to a niche - Gourmet food store providing cookery lessons and meal assembly, alongside food and cookery products

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That's showing them...
'The binary comparison indicated that, if anything, adhering to the recommended vaccination schedule improved the children's cognitive development, as those kids outscored the least timely group on 12 of the 42 tests, whereas the co

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Quite an interesting & humorous way of presenting info

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'Thanks to the popular 1988 movie Stand and Deliver, many Americans know of the success that Jaime Escalante and his students enjoyed at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. During the 1980s, that exceptional teacher at a poor public school built a c

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I used the more mundane buses & autorickshaws & the likes

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Create flashcards online and use them to memorize stuff. Also has online tests to check your effectiveness.

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'Yes, our education system needs urgent reform. Yes, we need to relook at our exam system. Yes, we need to ensure that parents do not pressurize children. But in the pursuit of educational reform, we cannot allow standards of excellence to be lowered. Ind

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Making snowflakes in the lab & capturing time lapse images. Neat!

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EssayRater is a writing support tool that proofreads your texts and protects you against:
* Plagiarism
* Spelling errors
* Poor word choice
* Poor grammar
* Punctuation mistakes

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Courseware from Harvard, MIT & other top universities. Interestingly, the material seems to be Creative Commons licensed.

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Wonder whether we should have (or already have) something for the IITs?

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A student draws a Charizard in the test & the teacher replies with another. Is this the future of education?

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If only we were cats...
'In several cases, pet animals (most often cats) have successfully been "enrolled" in suspected diploma mills in order to investigate or demonstrate the fraudulent nature of the degrees issued by those institutions. Several such ca

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An article by William Deresiewicz about how universities should exist to make minds, not careers from The American Scholar
Not very different from the way things are shaping up in India

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