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Venture Capital In Education Summit 2010 Seeks Ten Game-Changing Early Stage Education Companies |
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May 08, 2010
Early-Stage Companies Can Apply for -Education Innovators Showcase,- A Rare Opportunity to Present to Venture Capitalists and Influentials in Education Industry.
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Early-Stage Companies Can Apply for -Education Innovators Showcase,- A Rare Opportunity to Present to Venture Capitalists and Influentials in Education Industry.
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Application of the Kiva Model in the Education World |
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Feb 09, 2010
I wrote this as an email on Sep 7th 2007 but sharing it on my blog now.
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I am sure many of you may have heard of Kiva before (if you haven't people can fund entrepreneurs directly through micro loans instead of going through banks) . I like the idea because I believe that subsidies should go to the place where it is needed directly.
For non-profits of the future (don't know how far away this is), I think the subsidy should go where the cost/benefit accrues. So, in the case of any organization that runs schools, the ...
New Yorker Article on Teachers, Unions and The Rubber Room |
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Aug 30, 2009
A great article in the New Yorker about the teaching system and the role of teacher's unions in the US.
The link is here:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/31/090831fa_fact_brill
But some interesting excerpts:
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In a windowless room in a shabby office building at Seventh Avenue and Twenty-eighth Street, in Manhattan, a poster is taped to a wall, whose message could easily be the mission statement for a day-care center: “Children are fragile. Handle with care.” It’s a June morning, and there are fifteen people in the room, four of them fast asleep, their heads ...
A great article in the New Yorker about the teaching system and the role of teacher's unions in the US.
The link is here:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/31/090831fa_fact_brill
But some interesting excerpts:
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In a windowless room in a shabby office building at Seventh Avenue and Twenty-eighth Street, in Manhattan, a poster is taped to a wall, whose message could easily be the mission statement for a day-care center: “Children are fragile. Handle with care.” It’s a June morning, and there are fifteen people in the room, four of them fast asleep, their heads ...
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