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[Very Cool New Tool!] Project @SIKULI – automates repetitive functions
Sikuli is a visual technology to automate and test graphical user interfaces GUI using images screenshots. Sikuli includes Sikuli Script, a visual scripting API for Jython, and Sikuli IDE, an integrated development environment for writing visual scripts with screenshots easily. Sikuli Script automates anything you see on the screen without…
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[Fascinating] Run your own secure microblogging service… – Classroom 2.0
“Just sharing a new bit of free open source microblogging software that’s recently been released. It’s an alternative to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc. that keeps your teachers’ and learners’ privacy safe and secure, i.e. since it’s running on your own server, no-one but you has access to the database so…
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[I’m Learning About] Formative and Summative Assessment in the Classroom
Defining Formative and Summative Assessments The terms “formative” and “summative” do not have to be difficult, yet the definitions have become confusing in the past few years. This is especially true for formative assessment. In a balanced assessment system, both summative and formative assessments are an integral part of information…
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[Great Report!] Six Strategies for Increasing Teacher Quality | National Opportunity to Learn Campaign
Need a primer on issues affecting teacher quality? Then check out this new report from the Annenberg Institute for School Reform. “Straight Talk on Teacher Quality” breaks down six major problems in ensuring teacher quality and provides strategies to fix them, examples of organizations and school districts already implementing solutions,…
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Steering Girls to Science and Tech Careers | MindShift
For Ebony Green, a career as a scientist might have seemed unlikely just last year. The stereotypical outcome for girls like Ebony, an eighth-grader at Frick Middle School in a rough part of East Oakland, isn’t necessarily a high-paying job in science, math, engineering or technology. In fact, 40 percent…
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The Corporate R&D Tax Credit and U.S. Innovation and Competitiveness
The United States spends more than any other nation in the world on research and development but its relative position has been falling even as other countries increase their investments in research. via The Corporate R&D Tax Credit and U.S. Innovation and Competitiveness.
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Continued Majority Support for Death Penalty – Pew Research Center
Public opinion about the death penalty has changed only modestly in recent years, but there continues to be far less support for the death penalty than there was in the mid-1990s. via Continued Majority Support for Death Penalty – Pew Research Center.
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Top 10 U.S. Government Investments in 20th Century American Competitiveness
As the Commerce Department report released today confirms, to position ourselves for sustainable economic growth, we have to keep focusing on the engines of that growth. Our people, our infrastructure, and our innovation are critical to America’s formula for success. When the American people invested in our competitiveness in the…
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4 Characteristics of Education Programs That Actually Work | Getting Smart
Education is a huge conversation, but almost all of the conversation is about education problems. There is not a serious or mature conversation about solutions. Meanwhile, lots of resources and attention are going into an ever-changing, wide variety of programs it is hoped will be part of some solution. How…
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NCLB’s Lost Decade Report | FairTest
The federal No Child Left Behind NCLB law failed badly in terms of its own goals, leading to a decade of educational stagnation, according to FairTest’s report marking NCLB’s tenth anniversary. Among the report’s major findings: NCLB failed to significantly increase average academic performance or to significantly narrow achievement gaps,…
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