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Teachers Strike in El Salvador to Protest Pay

Nearly 800,000 students were affected by a two-day nationwide teacher strike in El Salvador.  Members of several national unions carried out a work stoppage in protest of teacher pay. One union abstained from striking, citing ...
by Sara Van Note
 
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Commercial Entity Buying Up Open Source Software Alternatives

How does one compete against FREE? That’s an interesting question for Blackboard, a company which creates learning management systems (LMS). Blackboard previously engaged in buying up and either dismantling or integrati...
by Jonathan Davidson
 
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Sierra Leone Adds An Extra School Year To Raise Scores

  The West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) is a test administered in Anglophone West African countries to students in their final year of secondary school that establishes their eligibility to enro...
by Tait Mandler
 
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How is YouTube For Schools Doing Three Months After Launch?

We’ve been talking a lot about rapidly emerging online technologies that are creating high-quality and free educational opportunities (check out our posts on MITx and MOOCs). We’ve also already celebrated the launc...
by Tait Mandler
 
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Japan Looks to India for Education Mojo

As Japan falls in ranks in science and math, the country is looking to Indian schools as a source of new opportunity.  Over recent years, India has  invested in software development, internet business and human capital intens...
by Marliz Calleja
 
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