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  Facebook CEO unveils foundation, $100M donation

  EDUCATION, financial news

  Zuckerberg makes friends with more than 40,000 students in Newark, N.J. Following a day of frenzied reports about an upcoming $100 million donation to a struggling school system, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced the creation of a new foundation called Startup: Education. Zuckerberg is seeding the foundation with the “initial gift” of $100 million to the Newark, N.J. school system. Zuckerberg is scheduled to announce his donation later today on the Oprah Winfrey Show. And the Facebook founder isn’t alone in [...]

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  Teenage-Built Diesel Hybrid Does 0-60 in 4 Seconds, Soon to Break 100 MPG

  Cars & Racing, EDUCATION, Top Students

  Students from West Philadelphia High School have built a diesel-hybrid race car that goes from 0-60 in four seconds. While the car currently gets 60+ mpg, they hope to soon break 100 mpg.  Why? They are competing for $10 million in the Automotive X-Prize . Called the Hybrid Attack, the car was built by kids from West Philly’s Academy of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering. And if that alone doesn’t make them cool, they are the only high school team competing out of 90 different [...]

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  The Harlem Children’s Zone

  Charities, EDUCATION, ICON

  Geoffrey Canada’s Harlem Children’s Zone has helped put historically low-achieving students in New York on academic par with their grammar-school peers. CNN’s Anderson Cooper reports. In his 20-plus years with Harlem Children’s Zone, Inc., Geoffrey Canada has become nationally recognized for his pioneering work helping children and families in Harlem and as a passionate advocate for education reform. Since 1990, Mr. Canada has been the President and Chief Executive Officer for Harlem Children’s Zone, which The New York Times Magazine [...]

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  Google CEO — Eric Schmidt -Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age – Day 1

  EDUCATION

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  Session I. The Next Revolution in Learning

  EDUCATION

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  Session II. Literacy 2.0

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  Session III. New Learning Designs

  EDUCATION

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  Session IV: Teachers for a Digital Age

  EDUCATION

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  Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age – Closing Panel: Breakthrough Ideas to Drive Student

  EDUCATION

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