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Group Sees Need For Changes In Remedial College Classes
washingtontimes.com 1 hour, 21 minutes agoOVERLAND PARK, Kan. , Each year, an estimated 1.7 million U.S. college students are steered to remedial classes to catch them up and prepare them for regular course work. But a growing body of research shows the courses are eating up time and money, often leading not to degrees but ...
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Hacker High School, GameDesk, Aims To Create A Generation Of Makers
techcrunch.com 1 week, 4 days agoFacebook created a $100 billion empire on top of a “ hacker culture ,” a workplace ethos that encourages wild experimentation and collaborative fun. Now, AT&T is betting $3.8 million that one school, GameDesk , can prepare students for the controlled chaos of the modern workplace. At GameDesk, subjects, from English to Algebra, are an interdisciplinary investigation into real world problems and the curriculum employs the creation of video games, movies, and art, to understand them better. As CEO Lucien Vatt
















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