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Longer school day? How five states are trying to change education.

Five states are participating in a pilot project designed to recast and improve education in low-income communities by leveraging a longer school day or year in innovative ways.
Obama turns to 'master teachers' to improve US math scores

Two-thirds of US 8th-graders are below proficiency in math and science. President Obama's new attempt to reverse the trend involves cultivating master teachers to train other teachers.
OpenCourseWare: College education, without the student loans

Free, online lectures and course materials offer Ivy-League classes to everyone.
When college students reinvent the world

Kansas State University professor Michael Wesch’s ‘World Sim’ course – aka Anthropology 204 – helps students create new ‘cultures’ to get beyond the multiple choices to understanding the ‘why’ of global affairs.
Do politics really tilt classrooms?

Students feel they learn more from professors whose views jibe with their own, researchers find.
How to reengineer an engineering major at a women's college

A Smith College professor's program may provide a pattern for how to attract and keep women engineers.
How to reengineer an engineering major at a women's college

A Smith College professor's program may provide a pattern for how to attract and keep women engineers.