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Teacher fired from Art Institute (of California–OC) for not requiring an...
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Post City Year options (your input is wanted!)
My current position with City Year ends in June. I’m currently exploring post-City Year options, which City Year comically refers to as LACY (life after City Year). I have started collecting a (so far...
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Some unexplored effects of MOOCs in the long-term
There is currently lots of thinking going on about the implications of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)–courses that are free online and enroll tens of thousands of students at a time from all over...
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“Accredible:” a new online service to document mastery of a particular...
Typically, upon successful completion of a MOOC (massive open online course) through a provider such as Coursera, students are provided a certificate of accomplishment stating that the student has...
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Scholars and “outreach”
This summer, the American Mathematical Society released an article arguing for mathematicians to focus only on academics and research while in graduate school and post-doc programs. Essentially, the...
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Tufts University: new “gap year” service initiative!
Tufts University is starting a new program for incoming first-year students where they can spend a year after high school doing a year of service domestically or internationally before starting their...
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“Learn to change the world” OR “Learn, to change the world.”
Last spring, I completed my Master’s degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). As the next batch of new students will be starting classes in a few weeks, I’ve been thinking back to the...
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