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The Myth of Chinese Super Schools by Diane Ravitchnybooks.com
Yong Zhao’s new book tells us that China has the best education system because it can produce the highest test scores. But, he says, it has the worst education system because those test scores are purchased by sacrificing creativity, divergent thinking... -
The Internet Archive, Trying to Encompass All Creationbits.blogs.nytimes.com
The Internet Archive has 12 million items in its digital collection. Under expansion plans announced this week, that is merely the beginning. -
He Leaves School by Uber. Venture Cap Dad Just Wishes He'd Investedbloomberg.com
As the oldest of three kids, Baily Deeter was often the last to be picked up from school by his mother. Then Uber Technologies Inc. came along. - dissentmagazine.org
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The Best Photo Organizing App? I’m Still Lookingnytimes.com
A new entrant from Dropbox, Carousel, looked promising, but fell short. A raft of others all have strengths, but nothing offers everything you want. - github.com
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BBC - Blogs - Adam Curtis - HAPPIDROME - Part Onebbc.co.uk
In the battle for Kobane everyone talks about the enemy - IS - and the frightening ideas that drive them. No one talks about the Kurdish defenders and what inspires them. But when you look at what the Kurds are fighting for - what you discover is fasci... - blog.mozilla.org
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Is that Bill Gates staring back at you from Outlook 2010?arstechnica.com
Take a closer look at the fallback image in Outlook 2010's People Pane and you … -
staltz/introrx.mdgist.github.com
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing - Gist is a simple way to share snippets of text and code with others. -
R 3.1.2 released with over 6,000 CRAN packages availableblog.revolutionanalytics.com
The latest update to the world's most popular statistical data analysis software is now available. R 3.1.2 (codename: "Pumpkin Helmet") makes a number of minor improvements and bug fixes to the R language engine. You can see the complete list of change... -
Window Maker Nostalgiacambus.net
Reminiscing Window Maker, an X11 window manager reproducing the NeXTSTEP user interface