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Charlie Rose talks with Teach for America Founder Wendy Kopp
Charlie Rose featured an interview with Wendy Kopp, the Founder of Teach for America (official website) last week. For anyone interested in education the conversation is a fascinating one, following the recent publication of her book One Day, All Children…: The Unlikely Triumph Of Teach For America And What I Learned Along The Way.
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High Marks for Teach for America
From the Wall Street Journal’s Amazing Teacher Facts -
Eleven per cent of Yale’s senior class, 9% of Harvard’s and 10% of Georgetown’s applied for a job whose salary ranges from $25,000 (in rural South Dakota) to $44,000 (in New York City).
Hang on a second.
Unions keep saying the best people won’t go into teaching unless […]
The Last Lecture of Randy Pausch, it’s a good one
Computer Science Professor Randy Pausch, who has terminal pancreatic cancer, delivered what is expected to be his last lecture at Carnegie Mellon University entitled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.”
WSJ: A Beloved Professor Delivers The Lecture of a Lifetime
WSJ: The Professor’s Manifesto: What It Meant to Readers
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Social Innovation Conversations: Pura Vida Coffee
From the Social Innovations Podcast comes a talk from John Sage, co-founder and CEO of Pura Vida Coffee. John tells the story of his friend Chris, a friend he met through a Christian fellowship group when they were both in the Harvard Business School. While John went to work for a start up tech company […]
Most Interesting Fact I heard Today
“There are more Ethiopian doctors in Washington D.C. than in all of Ethiopia.”
From NPR: Hospital Gives Ethiopian Women a Chance at Care
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New York Review of Books, Allison Lurie on Alice Munro, Jeffrey Sachs on the viability of Economic Aid
New York Review of Books has two articles this month of particular interest - The Lamp in the Mausoleum and How Aid Can Work, in response to Aid: Can It Work?. Comments after the jump.
Yunus, Economist Microloan Banker, wins Nobel Peace Prize
The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Muhammad Yunus, an economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, which specializes in microloans to the poor. I personally think the choice was an excellent one, though not everyone agrees.
In the stunningly asinine Losing its Lustre, The Economist ($) takes the view that the Nobel Peace Prize […]