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Using Khan Academy to teach the rich kids is just not impressive « Computing Education Blog
Elliot: Yes and the free & reduced lunch rate in each of these schools is 4%. On the webpage with that info, if you hit the button “show homes in the area around the school” you will see homes that range in price from $900,000 to $4,000,000.
education  khanacademy  learning  elearning  money  class 
september 2011 by rtlechow
Nicaraguan Sign Language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"From the beginning of her research in Nicaragua in 1986 until Nicaraguan Sign Language was well-established, Kegl carefully avoided introducing the signed languages she already knew, in particular American Sign Language, to the deaf community in Nicaragua. A type of linguistic imperialism had been occurring internationally for decades where individuals would introduce ASL to populations of deaf people in other countries, often supplanting already existing local signed languages. Kegl's policy was to document and study rather than to impose or change the language or its community. While she did not interfere with deaf Nicaraguans gaining exposure to other signed languages, she did not introduce such opportunities herself. She has however documented contact and influences with other signed languages that began as early as the 1990s and that continue to influence ISN as any languages in contact influence one another."
accessibility  anthropology  brain  biology  communication  community  culture  grammar  language  languages  linguistics  learning  psychology 
august 2010 by rtlechow
lbrandy.com » Blog Archive » Never trust a programmer who says he knows C++
"Just mention that C++ is an extremely large and complex language, and the post-valley people will give you 127 different tiny frustrations they have with the language. The pre-valley people will say “Yea, I guess. I mean, it’s just C with classes.”. "
c++  programming  learning  funny  interview  coding  c  humour 
april 2010 by rtlechow

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