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After Affirmative Action, My Black Daughter Wonders, ‘Do I Belong at a Top College?’
[ad_1] My daughter recently called me in a panic. She said, “I’m not getting into Brown!” I wondered what she was talking about. She had just finished her junior year of high school and hadn’t applied to college yet. Then I realized why she was calling. Two days earlier the United States Supreme Court ruled ... -
Behind the Data: Uncovering New Truths in School Librarian Employment
[ad_1] Keith Curry Lance of RSL Research Group has been studying school librarian employment for a long time, roughly 30 years since his first study came out. In that time, he has seen a lot of changes. But when he sat down a decade or so ago to sort out which states had gained librarians ... -
Google at 25: How the Tech Giant is Revolutionizing Search in Africa
[ad_1] There’s a lot that goes into building a search engine. While it seems simple enough — you type a question, and we find results that match — we’ve taken on many deep, technical challenges to make Google what it is today. And the reality is that Search is never a solved problem. Old challenges ... -
How Do Kids View Themselves? This Survey Shares the Answers
[ad_1] There are likely droves of educators who find themselves wishing they could take a peek inside their students’ minds to find out, “What the heck are you thinking?” Some of those answers were made available last month when the Boys & Girls Clubs of America released its annual survey of kids and teens ages ... -
Young Kids in Low-Income Families Get Less Exposure to Math. Can the Right Apps Help?
[ad_1] Recent public debates have focused a spotlight on K-12 math pathways. But there’s been less attention paid to what math skills students need early in life, to set them up for elementary school in the first place. For early learners, exposure to math concepts can be at the mercy of their family’s economic status ... -
Kids Aren’t the Only Ones Who Benefit From Social-Emotional Learning
[ad_1] How would you react if you learned that one of your students felt that you don’t treat them like a full person, with a life and responsibilities beyond the classroom? This is a real scenario we encountered during a focus group last school year with a group of high school students in Florida who ... -
How Dream VC is Empowering the Next Generation of African Angels, VCs & Ecosystem Builders
[ad_1] Visionary leaders play a crucial role in the emerging economies’ dynamic environment, where entrepreneurship and innovation are defining the future. In a recent chat, I had the privilege of engaging with the Co-founders of Dream VC, Mark Kleyner and Cindy AI. With a trail of expertise in ecosystem building and early-stage investing, the co-founders’ ... -
The B2B marketplace boom has already begun
[ad_1] The B2B marketplace movement is hitting critical mass. Just about 16 years ago, there were likely about 75 B2B marketplaces serving a variety of mostly established industries such as automotive, health care and aviation, among a few others. But today the number of vertical market or industry marketplace has grown 6.7-fold in the last ...











