By Kayla Webley Time Magazine, July 9, 2012 Fifth-graders at eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto, Calif., sit at their desks with netbooks. They’re in the middle of a math lesson, listening as a teacher explains how to convert percentages to decimals. “If we get rid of the percent sign, we just …
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Following is almost an hour’s worth of interview with Salman Khan, the man who gave up a bright and potentially rich future as a hedge fund manager to create the free, not-for-profit Khan Academy which is featured as one of the prominent pages of this blog. To the Dina Ocampos, Aurelio Agcaoilis, Ricardo Nolascos, Ched …
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I was searching the Internet for educational video lectures which could be used as a model for a more efficient and relatively cheaper delivery mode of education to students in general, and for multilingual education (MLE) in particular, when I came upon this news item in The Chronicle of Higher Education. In the wake of …
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Multilingual Education for All in Asia and the Pacific: Policies, Practices and Processes. 4th International Conference on Language and Education. Nov. 6-8, 2013, Imperial Queen's Park Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand. Correspondence related to the conference may be addressed to: Ms. Panyaphat Piam-o-pad, International Conference Secretariat Coordinator (mleconf2013@gmail.com) or Ms. Kyungah Kristy Bang, MLE Secretariat Coordinator (k.bang@unesco.org).
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