Tag: education
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In one episode of The Simpsons, Mr Burns tries to have his son admitted to Yale. An admissions officer tells him, frankly, that ‘test scores like Larry’s would merit a very generous donation. A score of 400 would require new football uniforms. Three hundred would require a new dormitory. And in Larry’s case? We’d need an…
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Toby W. Rush’s “Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People” covers a massive range of topics like pitch, rhythm, scales, intervals, and harmonics. The online book itself is more arranged as a collection of high-quality PDFs that offer diagrams, notes, and tips for everything music theory related. There’s around 50 PDFs to go over, but…
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http://marketplace.org/sites/default/iframes/learningcurve/studentdatainfographic.html “We have five orders of magnitude more data about you than Google has,” he says in the video. “We literally have more data about our students than any company has about anybody else about anything, and it’s not even close.” Five orders of magnitude more data than Google is a whole lot of data.…
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From Islington’s The Bridge School. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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The report recognizes the existence of a guarantee of the right to freedom of expression in the Palestinian Basic Law, which serves in lieu of a constitution, and calls for this to be strengthened. The recommendations highlight that existing legal restrictions on free expression should be amended to be in line with international standards of…
Sameer Padania 