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SEATTLE (AP) — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday it would be investing $20 million to bring new national education standards into the classroom using game-based learning, social-networking and other approaches to capture the imagination of bored or unmotivated students.
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"No Child Left Behind has turned into a timetable for the destruction of American public education," she tells. "I had never imagined that the test would someday be turned into a blunt instrument to close schools — or to say whether teachers are good teachers or not — because I always knew children's test scores are far more complicated than the...
As their tax rates plummeted, the total income of the richest 400 Americans skyrocketed. In 1995, the combined income of the richest 400 was just over $6 billion. By 2007, the combined income of the richest 400 was almost $23 billion.
They hoped their cash could transform failing classrooms. They were wrong. This week's Newsweek investigates what their money bought. This story was reported and written by the Center for Public Integrity.
Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates is the story of a confrontation that took place over 35 years. Jobs was the first winner before giving way to Gates and then resume it definitely…
A few weeks ago, Lady Gaga's third (second? Two-point-fifth?) album hit the masses, and boy did it hit hard. Selling 1.11 million copies of Born This Way its first week solidified Gaga among the annals of pop culture history. In honor of this debut- the biggest of 2011 so far- we decided to count down the best of the Gaga…
These are challenging times for secondary education. Cash-strapped school districts are cutting back; No Child Left Behind mandates test results; parents and students stress unabated. NEWSWEEK, which has been ranking the top public high schools in America for more than a decade, revamped its methodology this year in hopes of...
As an undergraduate, you need to keep something in mind. The classes you will be taking at the undergraduate level will not differ that much from one establishment to the other. Most of the classes are core classes for your initial steps into the field.
Wang Chuanfu. Don't know the name? Until a few years ago, neither did Charlie Munger, vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. When Munger checked out Wang's company, BYD, the Chinese maker of plug-in hybrid cars and rechargeable batteries, he was so impressed he persuaded Warren Buffett—legendary for his dislike of tech...
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