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Programming ed tech startup, General Assembly, sells to Adecco for $413 million | TechCrunch ow.ly/VkJP30jx0u3

Google unveils new Chrome OS tablets right before Apple shows off its new hardware — Quartz ow.ly/hrO630jb9IX

The forgetting curve explains why learning is hard — Quartz ow.ly/S82U30iMxJ5

“There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.” —George Washington, Address to Congress, January 8, 1790 HT @sciam

In Children's Storybooks, Realism Has Advantages : NPR ow.ly/j1N630erQq9

Learning to Learn: You, Too, Can Rewire Your Brain - The New York Times ow.ly/Jcfa30ealo8

The Silicon Valley Billionaires Remaking America’s Schools - @nytimes ow.ly/ZXD230col33 @natashanyt

Test time in china "Prayers before China's "gaokao" exam season" | Reuters ow.ly/Od3o30cojgj

How Video Games Amplify Learning - DML Central ow.ly/Zp6A30c2rlO

On assessment tests video games players outperformed those who didn’t use games & just had traditional instruction ow.ly/UQ3X30c2qMQ

How Google Took Over the Classroom - The New York Times ow.ly/fceh30bGY0d

The Myth of the College Dropout | Observer ow.ly/q7cF30bondk @JonathanLWai

Microsoft Looks to Regain Lost Ground in the Classroom - The New York Times ow.ly/2OZ430bmX5X

Hadi Partovi Started Code.org To Introduce All Students, Especially Girls, To Computer Science ow.ly/ND3N30aYQ9Y

How Do Massively Open Online Courses Compare To In-Person Instruction For Learning Programming? ow.ly/LMxt30aIUeY

New York State reaches deal to provide free tuition for SUNY and CUNY students ow.ly/qPJM30aIU10

Where Non-Techies Can Get With the Programming - The New York Times ow.ly/vpeM30aAsou

Who Needs Charters When You Have Public Schools Like These? - The New York Times ow.ly/QsjJ30avEFu

A New Kind of Jobs Program for Middle America, Code Schools - WSJ ow.ly/6U4n309orqG

Pearson Posts $3.3 Billion Loss as It Faces Down U.S. Collapse | Fortune.com ow.ly/MWcD309mzZb