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With 60 percent of its 1 billion population under 30 years old, Africa looks to education, technology and investment to give its youth a path away from poverty and chronic unemployment. -
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1voteArticle about the current challenges, and improvements, in the New Orleans school systems. Continued problems with truancy, but progress being seen thanks to the impacts of new superintendent, Paul G. Vallas.
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David Stairs (author) describes his experience at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum's exhibit "Design for the Other 90%." An exhibit about product design for impoverished and developing countries. He asks some hard questions here about the successes and failures of these products meant to help these people... -
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This new database, launched in July 2005, contains more than 75 measures of child well-being, including the 10 measures used in our annual KIDS COUNT Data Book. It includes the most timely data available on Education, Employment and Income, Poverty, Health, Basic Demographics, and Youth Risk Factors for the U.S., all 50 states, and D.C. Depending on availability, three to five years of trend data -
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The world-changing hundred-dollar laptop is going into mass production, which means that soon one of two things will happen. Either a) a huge number of these things will get shipped into developing countries and begin to crash and pile up, broken, in heaps; or b) a huge number of these things will pile up in some warehouse because the orders still aren't coming in. -
5voteA wide variety of scientists, educators, celebrities, and luminaries present talks on a variety of subjects from past TED conferences on this site: Jeff Han, NicholasNegroponte, Dan Gilbert, Anna Deveare-Smith, Ray Kurzweil, Peter Gabrielle, Robert Neuwirth, Al Gore, Bono, Steven Levitt, Eve Ensler, ZeFrank, Jimmy Whales, Richard Baraniuk...and more.
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1votePieta's Doctoral Study Plan on workforce development training, poverty and adult education
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