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Fast Company July 2002 Fara Warner |
How Google Searches Itself Google has become one of the hottest companies in Silicon Valley by helping millions of Internet users search the Web smarter and faster. But how does this wildly popular search engine find the new ideas that will keep its business moving forward? By "googling" itself. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2002 Sloane O'Neal |
The Impact of ESEA's Scientifically Based Research Requirement on Schools' Technology Solutions This requirement, that districts implement products and programs founded on scientifically based research, is one of the bill's greatest strengths. When coupled with effective professional development, these educational solutions represent an overwhelmingly positive move. |
Salon.com June 5, 2002 Amy Weivoda |
We hung the most dimwitted essays on the wall The biggest case against standardized testing might be the people who score the tests -- people like me, for instance. |
Mother Jones May/Jun 2002 Daniel Brook |
Class Activist It's not easy being an activist when you're only 16. High school junior Selemawit Tewelde is facilitating a group trying to fight privatization in the Philadelphia schools... |
Reason June 2002 Mike Lynch |
Ethnic Engineering An elementary school in the small Sierra Nevada town of Colfax, California, entered the era of educational accountability this year when the state withheld $31,000 in special funds on the grounds that 69 American Indian students had failed to measure up academically... |
IDB America May 2002 Paul Constance |
Rebirth of a condemned school How a dumping ground for troubled students became an oasis of learning in a working-class suburb of Santiago, Chile |
IDB America May 2002 Paul Constance |
Why do you teach? The art of motivating teachers in a high-stress, low-reward environment |
IDB America May 2002 Paul Constance |
First, help the neediest By targeting assistance to the worst-performing public schools, Chile has helped to narrow the learning gap between rich and poor |
IDB America May 2002 |
Innovation can be contagious There are islands of innovation and creativity throughout Latin America's vast public education systems, but very little human traffic between them. |
IDB America May 2002 Lawrence Wolff |
An environment that encourages change Chile begins to see the fruits of nearly two decades of educational reform |
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