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I'm doing 'God's work'. Meet Mr Goldman SachsNumber 85 Broad Street, a dull, rust-coloured office block in lower Manhattan, doesn’t look like a place to stop and stare, and that’s just the way the people who work there like it. The men and women who arrive in the watery dawn sunshine, dressed in Wall Street black, clutching black ...
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Global Kids' Digital Media InitiativeProject launched in January 2006 with support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Global Kids’ Digital Media Initiative (DMI) is a series of interrelated programs designed to encourage and support teenagers in thinking critically about the role of digital media in their ...
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Using Alternative Assessment Models to Empower Youth-directed LearningTashawna is a high school senior in Brooklyn, NY. In the morning she leaves home for school listening to her MP3s, texting her friends about meeting up after school at Global Kids, where she participates in a theater program, or FIERCE, the community center for LGBT youth. On the weekend she'll ...
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The Power of "Why?" - asking questions is more powerful than memorizing answers.Three years ago, Ross A. Kearney II wanted to build a trade school. Kearney, mayor of the coastal city of Hampton, Virginia, thought a new trade school would curb the high drop-out rate in a community where nearly half the residents live in poverty. He took his pitch to a city-appointed commission. ...
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Educators Flocking to Finland, Land of Literate ChildrenImagine an educational system where children do not start school until they are 7, where spending is a paltry $5,000 a year per student, where there are no gifted programs and class sizes often approach 30. A prescription for failure, no doubt, in the eyes of many experts, but in this case a ...
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Co-Authoring in Online Problem-based Learning: Collaborative Approaches and ChallengesThis paper examines students’ efforts working together to solve problems and to document their solutions to those problems through online problem-based learning (PBL) projects. In particular, this paper focuses on studying patterns that students adopted in co-authoring project documents that ...
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Film: Women are solution to global povertyIn the war on global poverty, the most powerful weapons are sometimes the women. “When you look at the most marginalized group on the planet, it’s women and girls,” said Scott Thigpen, Atlanta-based producer of the new documentary “A Powerful Noise.” “You have to give them a voice in their ...
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An Economic Analysis Of Contemporary Local Currencies In The United StatesBeginning with Ithaca, New York in 1991, over 80 communities in the United States introduced printed local currencies. This is a curious phenomenon. Over the same period of time, the United States economy was relatively stable by historical standards, electronic payments grew sharply, and 15 ...
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Learning to ShareProfessional excellence is difficult to achieve outside of a good organization. Conversely, flourishing organizations are difficult to develop without good people. A domain where the intersection of professional and organizational goods is particularly important, especially in our information ...
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Non-Traditional R & DUncertainty about funding; difficulty in determining research priorities; and concern about technology transfer (the lack of application of research results): these words stand out in the language of scientific/industrial research and development, today. Socalled technology transfer seems to be ...
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