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BusinessWeek July 2, 2007 Moon Ihlwan	Korea's New School Of Thought As growth cools, Korea looks for an education model that spurs innovation.
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T.H.E. Journal September 2, 2009 Ruth Reynard	5 Ways We're Diminishing Learning by Assuming Face-to-Face Instruction Is Best Face-to-face instruction is often assumed to be the proven method, while other methods have yet to prove themselves. This assumption is not only misleading, but it might also be helping to diminish potential opportunities of better learning for our students.
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2010 John K. Waters	Dream On: Visionary Educators and Their Big Ideas The four educators we've chosen to spotlight as visionaries conceived, developed, and guided technology-driven initiatives perhaps initially thought to be impractical.
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T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser	Boundless Opportunity National borders are no match for the reach of online technologies, as demonstrated by a host of collaborative projects that use web-based platforms to link US students with their peers abroad.
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T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2010 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	Instant Web Access? 'Fancy' That One reason we may not be making much progress in tech-based education is a mistaken assumption among the public about the amount of access to technology that teachers and students have.
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T.H.E. Journal December 2, 2009 Bridget McCrea	Setting the Stage for Distance Learning Distance learning capabilities are made possible by Afton, TN-based Chuckey-Doak High School's new video collaboration system and the school's newly formed partnerships with other Northeast Tennessee districts.
TIME Asia November 15, 2010 Michael Schuman	Asia's Latest Miracle Over the past decade, Korea has reinvented itself. It has become an innovator, an economy that doesn't just make stuff, but designs and develops products, infuses them with the latest technology, and then brands and markets them worldwide, with style and smarts.
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser	Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? A new spin on an old riddle goes to the heart of a conflict between K-12 schools and the colleges of education responsible for cultivating and providing them with new teachers.
T.H.E. Journal November 9, 2009 Sara Stroud	A New Way Forward Tech-based solutions, such as tools for teaching kids how to recognize facial expressions, are giving educators a means of helping autistic students acquire basic life skills.
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T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Jennifer Demski	Learning to Speak Math The presence of a bilingual educator is proving pivotal to the success of technology initiatives aimed at developing Spanish-speaking students' grasp of both the concepts and the language of mathematics.
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T.H.E. Journal November 2, 2009 David Nagel	Are Schools Preparing Students for 21st Century Learning? While more than half of America's school principal's say they are doing a good job preparing students for the 21st century, only a third of parents of middle school and high school students agree.
HBS Working Knowledge June 24, 2015 Christian Camerota	Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality A case study explores a new breed of "microschools" focused on reducing costs, enhancing educational impact, prioritizing customer satisfaction, and using technology to create continuous improvement.
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T.H.E. Journal January 28, 2010 Scott Aronowitz	Wisconsin District To Launch Online School Howard-Suamico School District of Green Bay, WI, has announced it will partner with Kaplan Virtual Education to launch Bay Port iAcademy to provide full- and part-time online education opportunities to middle school and high school students throughout the state.
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T.H.E. Journal August 4, 2009 David Nagel	Computer Science Courses on the Decline According to new research from the Computer Science Teachers Association, not only have the number of students enrolled in computer science has dropped significantly in the last four years and so have the number of AP computer science courses offered at high schools.
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HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010	Science Education Outreach Targets Students In Rural Schools Many of HHMI's science education grantees are focusing their outreach efforts on teachers and students from rural schools. Because long-distance travel is often out of the question, they are sending curricula and materials to rural teachers.
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