Letters: A Spotlight on Teaching, Not Teachers

Source: The New York Times

Re “ Gates Puts the Focus on Teaching ,” by Joe Nocera (column, May 22): We applaud Bill Gates for financing research on defining and measuring effective teaching. Having worked in hundreds of schools in New York City, we know that te ...
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Creating Innovators: Harvard author teaches parents, educators how to encourage innovation

Source: Toronto Star

Creating Innovators by Tony Wagner addresses how parents and educators can encourage the next generation of inventors and entrepreneurs. DREAMSTIME PHOTO Education expert Tony Wagner’s new book Creating Innovators offers ...
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McEntee: Utahns need to take a hard look at ALEC and its influence

Source: Salt Lake Tribune

The reawakening of the Sagebrush Rebellion began with a bold, if constitutionally suspect, demand from the 2012 Legislature: The federal government must cede all federal lands to the state of Utah. That legislation was supported by the Americ ...
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“Toilet Team” director leaves Gates Foundation to lead CGIAR Consortium

Source: Humanitarian News

Less than two years after joining the Bill ...
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Global vaccine action plan adopted

Source: Humanosphere

Seattle is the epicenter of a global effort to beat back poverty and illness in the poorest corners of the world. We'd like Humanosphere to be your go-to source for news, conversation and analysis about t ...
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Still more criticism of Obama’s private-sector relief plan for African hunger

Source: Humanosphere

Seattle is the epicenter of a global effort to beat back poverty and illness in the poorest corners of the world. We'd like Humanosphere to be your go-to source for news, conversation and analysis about this effort as it unfolds. Your host is KPLU's Tom ...
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Gates Foundation Awards $550,000 in 'Collaboration' Funding to NEA Foundation

Source: Education Week

The Bill ...
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Two more views on renewing WHO

Source: Humanosphere

A trio of writers at Foreign Affairs says: “After 15 years of heralded progress on pandemic preparedness, tuberculosis control, tobacco regulation, and health metrics, the World Health Organization faces confusion over its future.” The ...
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Technology in Tibet: Democratically disruptive

Source: Humanosphere

A good read, and a reminder of how technology can, in fact, by itself sometimes be a force for good. Knock, knock, knock. His guest flinched, but the monk calmly gestured to a desktop computer next to the religious shrine domi ...
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