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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

This Week In Education: Funders: Zuckerberg Wants To Educate K-8 Kids--On Facebook

This Week In Education: Funders: Zuckerberg Wants To Educate K-8 Kids--On Facebook

Funders: Zuckerberg Wants To Educate K-8 Kids--On Facebook

image from www.youaredefinitelydoingitwrong.comSeemingly little noted by most of the reformy types attendance at the NSVF summit last week, Mark Zuckerberg revealed some startling thinking behind his interest in school reform and a controversial plan for Facebook going forward. Outside of education, the remarks caught folks' attention and -- in combination with hearings back in Washington -- generated a flurry of coverage and concern (PCMag, Fortune Tech, International Business Times, Atlantic Wire, Huffington Post). What's it all about? Asked what got him interested enough to give $100M to Newark, Zuckerberg noted that part


Video: Even "The Simpsons" School Has A Rubber Room

This episode of the Simpsons featuring an un-dismissable teacher named Edna Crabapple and a NYC-style "rubber room" is almost as good as the one a few years ago in which administrators reclassified Bart as special education in order to raise school test scores.

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