How to Get Girls Into Coding
Getting Girls to Code Accordiing to Nitasha Tiku of the New York Times, "A huge nationwide push is underway, funded by the nonprofit Code.org’s corporate and billionaire donors, from Amazon and Google [...]
Maya Angelou, Lyrical Witness of the Jim Crow South, Dies at 86
“How maddening it was to have been born in a cotton field with aspirations of grandeur.” As the news of Maya Angelou's passing touches the nation, I am both saddened [...]
NY Times: Is College Worth It? Clearly, New Data Say
Graduation ceremonies at Temple University in Philadelphia this month. The pay disparity between those with college degrees and those without continues to grow.CreditDavid Swanson/The Philadelphia Inquirer, via Associated Press NEW [...]
NY Times: This Smart Girl Says Thank You
John Gress/Reuters True Grit According Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times, "In 2011, a malnourished 14-year-old Vietnamese village girl named Phung arose in the wee hours each morning in a [...]
NY Times: A Beginner’s Guide to Repaying Student Loans
Robert Neubecker According to the New York Times, "Too many people, including plenty of brand-new college graduates, fall far behind on their student loan payments for no good reason." As [...]
300,000 Quizzes Scanned with Quick Key Mobile
Hot on the heels of a $100,000 equity investment last week, today the 300,000th quiz was scanned using Quick Key Mobile’s app that turns your iPhone into an optical scanner. [...]
NY Times: For Schools, Long Road to a Level Playing Field
A classroom schedule in Tempe, Ariz. Many reports have highlighted a persistent gulf in test results between the rich and the poor. CreditJim Wilson/The New York Times According to the [...]
NY Times: Who Gets to Graduate
Vanessa Brewer Credit Bill McCullough for The New York Times According to a recent New York Times article, "More than 40 percent of American students who start at four-year colleges haven’t [...]
New York Times: Charters, Public Schools and a Chasm Between
Both the Middle School for Arts and Philosophy and Kings Collegiate Charter School are housed at PS 588 in Brownsville, N.Y. Credit Christopher Gregory for The New York Times It [...]
Michelle Obama: Holding Teachers' Feet to the Fire #edchat
First lady Michelle Obama delivers the commencement address to graduates of Dillard University in New Orleans, Saturday, May 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Jonathan Bachman) | ASSOCIATED PRESS The First Lady of [...]
ARC Capital Invests in Quick Key Mobile!
This week Quick Key Mobile closed on a private placement with global education venture fund ARC Capital Development, LLC. And the hits just keep on coming! April was a big [...]
THE NEW YORKER: LOUIS C.K. AGAINST THE COMMON CORE
Louis C.K. painting by Cara & Louie When a popular comedian takes to social media to talk about the Common Core and testing the world takes notice. Louis C.K. took to [...]