KidsRuby provides a way that kids can use the awesome programming language Ruby to learn how to write their own software. While using a simple interface, it still lets them explore the full capabilities of the Ruby language.
In addition to providing a full Ruby programming environment for kids, we also have a complete KidsRuby operating system based on Ubuntu Linux that makes it easy for kids to learn how to program in Ruby on any computer. And it will let them do it anywhere they go, just bring their own USB drive, plug in, and reboot.

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Ruby For Kids differs from Hakety Hack, another great Ruby learning resource, in a few ways. The first is that they take a game-centered approach to learning, which makes it particularly interesting for children. The second is that it uses gosu rather than the shoes framework, which is a broader GUI interface for ruby.

They also offer instructions on how to save your source code on Github for others to view and download.

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This report released by The Civil Rights Project at UCLA finds that for the first time in three decades, the South is in danger of losing its leadership as the nation's most integrated schools. The report examines the effects of the dual processes of racial transformation and resegregation on the educational opportunity of students, as well as the relationship between race and poverty and its implications in light of the recent Supreme Court decisions. The report concludes with recommendations for school districts.

Education reform was Oprah Winfrey’s star guest for two full days this week when she hosted a two-part series on the new education documentary “Waiting for Superman,” and it was a sight to behold. “Today you’re going to learn things that you had no idea were going on in this country in our schools,” were Oprah’s ominous opening words, and so was the beginning of what turned out to be a two-hour infomercial for the Obama administration’s education reform agenda.

The all-stars of the liberal education reform movement were there: Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Harlem Children’s Zone icon Geoffrey Canada, billionaire-philanthropist Bill Gates, the newly inducted education reform celebrity spokesperson John Legend, and of course Washington, D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee. With that lineup, the stage was perfectly set for what would ultimately become another chapter in the current teacher-bashing trend. The administration couldn’t have scripted a better show.

Ostensibly the crew had gathered to promote “Waiting for Superman,” the new education film by “Inconvenient Truth” documentarian Davis Guggenheim. And promote the film they did; “Waiting for Superman” is about the crisis of the American education system and the nation’s current efforts to overhaul the its public schools. While the film does feature almost all of the people who made the trip to Chicago to sit on Oprah’s couches and pitch their education policies to America, Rhee, Canada, Legend and Friday’s new guest Newark Mayor Cory Booker are also the cheerleaders and darlings (or bankrollers) of Obama’s education reform agenda, which targets teacher unions’ as the main culprit of the country’s crumbling education system.

Maybe, for starters, demanding a stronger, securer social safety net. But macroeconomic responses to Guggenheim's query—such as ensuring that all parents earn a living wage so that the appalling number of kids living below the poverty line in this country is reduced—go unaddressed in Waiting for Superman, which points out the vast disparity in resources for inner-city versus suburban schools only to ignore them.

Ducking thornier, more intractable problems (and relying too heavily on animated graphics), Guggenheim instead comes up with a proposal that no one could possibly take exception to: We need better teachers. But the biggest impediment to firing incompetent instructors and replacing them with excellent ones, the film argues, is the teachers' unions; Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation for Teachers, is made to look especially villainous, shown in a clip rousing her members by proudly proclaiming the AFT as a "special-interest group." (Weingarten has attacked the film on the Huffington Post and in the September issue of the AFT's newsletter.)

WELLESLEY, Mass.— As a key leader in the civil rights movement of the early 1960s, Robert Moses focused on registering southern sharecroppers to vote. Today, he aims to assure the right to learn algebra — arguing that mathematics literacy in today’s information age is as important to citizenship as registering to vote in 1960s Mississippi.

“The first to highlight access to algebra as a gateway to equal opportunity, civil rights leader Robert Moses has had a huge impact on American education,” said Barbara Beatty, professor and chair of the Department of Education at Wellesley College. “Through his groundbreaking work, he has raised awareness of math and technology literacy for all students as the key to citizenship in the 21st century.”

Moses will talk about the need for high quality mathematics education during a lecture, “The Right to Learn: The Long Campaign for Civil Rights and Education Equity,” Tuesday, March 16, at 4:30 pm in Collins Cinema on the Wellesley College campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Senator Edward Kennedy changed the face of education as we know it today; starting in 1964 when he made the first speech in favor of civil rights legislation which resulted in the integrated schools we have today.

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Courtesy photo MARJORIE CHANCE tells JJHS student Jaclyn Myers how she began a scrapbook on the Kennedy assassination more than 40 years ago. Myers said, "I learned a great deal from Mr. (Herman) Wright about the types of questions that should be used whi

A 'zero-tolerance' policy against violent crimes has put more Miami-Dade students in handcuffs--for fighting, graffiti and other minor offenses.

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Videotape was rolling March 14 when the 5-year-old girl swung again and again, her bantam punches landing on the outstretched palms of Nicole Dibenedetto, the new assistant principal at Fairmount Park Elementary.

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excerpt from Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education, by John S. Kendall and Robert J. Marzano.

The Education Department this summer destroyed more than 300,000 copies of a booklet designed for parents to help their children learn history after the office of Vice President Dick Cheney's wife complained that it mentioned the National Standards for Hi