Ideas About Education Reform

Sharing Ideas to Hack Curriculum in Schools

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장우혁-시간이 멈춘 날 Official Music Video

시간이 멈춘날 Official Music Video

classic kpop! 

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The Kendrick Lamar Project | The Lab x WestCo Hip Hop

The Lab Creative Arts Studio in West Covina is home to hundreds of kids who are guided through the most formative years of their lives. The main standard for...

DYNAMIC EDUCATION #rethinkhighschool

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As Trump takes aim at affirmative action, let’s remember how Jared Kushner got into Harvard

A lot of money, and two US senators, were involved.

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Are You Ready To Consider That Capitalism Is The Real Problem?

Before you say no, take a moment to really ask yourself whether it’s the system that’s best suited to build our future society.

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You can hang out at Chicago’s John Hancock building — literally. Tilt lowers visitors to a 30-degree angle 94 floors above the city.

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Lifesaving scientific tools made of paper

Inventor Manu Prakash turns everyday materials into powerful scientific devices, from paper microscopes to a clever new mosquito tracker. From the TED Fellows stage, he demos Paperfuge, a hand-powered centrifuge inspired by a spinning toy that costs 20 cents to make and can do the work of a $1,000 machine, no electricity required.

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10+ Emotional Same Sex Wedding Pics That Will Hit You Right In Your Soft Spot

June is LGBTQ Pride Month, and there's no better way to celebrate it than sharing these touching same-sex wedding photos.

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10+ Times Cats Found Catnip, And Cat.exe Stopped Functioning

If you're a cat owner, having a small bag of green powder in your home means something very different from what most people would think. It's that magical dust that turns domestic felines into wild jungle cats as soon as they get a whiff of it, and melts them into a motionless puddle of fluff if they lick it up. Enter the wondrous world of catnip, and the stoned kitties who can't get enough of it.

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Cool Opportunity: Substantial

Help us redesign the substitute teaching experience.

Check this out! They’re innovating around substitute teaching! 

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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller   (via designschoolx)

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Google’s AlphaGo Defeats Chinese Go Master in Win for A.I.

The software’s victory over the world’s best player of the Chinese game demonstrates how artificial intelligence can increasingly outperform humans at complex tasks.

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Wondering What Happened to Your Class Valedictorian? Not Much, Research Shows

Playing by the rules rarely pays off later in life.

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Stop telling us it’s not about the points

I have a lot of a respect for teachers–really, I do. Their dedication to making sure I get the experience I need is inspiring, especially because they do it under all of the difficult and awk…

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DJ Cummerbund - Earth, Wind & Ozzys

Earth, Wind & Fire team up with a variety of Ozzy Osbournes to sing about transportation. Want some official DJ Cummerbund merch...designed by DJ Cummerbund ...

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Stayin' in Black (The Bee Gees + AC/DC Mashup by Wax Audio)

Stayin' in Black (The Bee Gees + AC/DC Mashup by Wax Audio) The Bee Gees : Stayin' Alive AC/DC: Back in Black Audio & Video editing by Wax Audio (Tom Compagn...

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Envisioning a New High School, April 26th

40 Educators, entrepreneurs, students, philanthropists, equity/social justice leaders and designers are convening at Stanford’s d.school to redesign: Assessment, the Teacher/Student Relationship, School Partnerships and School Finance.

If you’re interested in building this school, please contact David H. Clifford, [email protected]

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Three years ago today, we envisioned a new high school for a new world. Next week, we’ll share super exciting news for for the next three years!! Thank you to everyone who’ve built DSX with us.

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Are there opportunities for campuses outside of the Bay area?

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What is a Seeker?

In this stunningly beautiful, 2-minute video, Jason Silva describes what it means to be a seeker. #participationsignal

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