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YC-backed Blabla raises $1.5M to teach English through short videosJanuary 13, 2021 at 10:58 PM Short, snappy, entertaining videos have become an increasingly common way for young people to receive information. Why not learn English through TikTok-like videos too? That was what prompted Angelo Huang to launch Blabla.
Originally from Taiwan, Huang relocated to Shanghai in 2019 to start Blabla after working in Silicon Valley for over a decade. A year later, Blabla was chosen as part of Y Combinator’s 2020 summer cohort. The coronavirus had begun to spread in the U.S. at the time, keeping mil...Tags: TC, Y Combinator, Asia, Education, China, Southeast Asia, Funding, Tech, Taiwan, Shanghai, Tencent, Silicon Valley, Telefonica, Latin America, Yc, Huang 20 people like this. Like Community groups join LAUSD-led campaign to speak out about Newsom’s school reopening proposalJanuary 13, 2021 at 9:36 PM More than a half-dozen educational and community organizations have joined in a campaign led by the Los Angeles Unified School District to apply pressure on the state to adopt a school reopening plan that would, in their opinion, better address the needs of the state’s most vulnerable students.
Representatives from 28 organizations, including Partnership for LA Schools, Educators for Excellence-Los Angeles and the LA Area Chamber of Commerce, sent a joint letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday...Tags: News, Education, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Lausd, Local News, Gavin Newsom, Santa Ana, LA County, Los Angeles Unified School District, Sam s Club, Austin Beutner, LA City Council, Newsom, State Budget 30 people like this. Like Why attorneys for Southern California schools blame victims for their own sexual abuse, bullyingJanuary 13, 2021 at 5:30 PM When lawyers representing Moreno Valley Unified School District argued that 13-year-old Diego Stolz and his family were partly to blame for his death at the hands of two bullies, it wasn’t the first time such an argument was used — and likely won’t be the last.
“I think it’s a disgusting strategy,” said lawyer Morgan Stewart, whose Irvine firm has sued districts whose defense attorneys have responded by blaming his clients for their alleged abuse. “It bothers me at a core level.”
Lewis Brisbois ...Tags: News, Education, California, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Courts, Lausd, Smith, Southern California, Moreno Valley, Huntington Beach, Stewart, Kelly, Torrance, Carlos 13 people like this. Like How to Talk with a Conspiracy Theorist: What the Experts RecommendJanuary 13, 2021 at 3:00 PM  Tags: Psychology, Google, Politics, College, Current Affairs, Reddit, University of Pennsylvania, Vox, Bill Nye, Daniel, Facebook Twitter, Pew Research, Josh Jones, University of California Irvine, Cass Sunstein, MIT Technology Review 118 people like this. Like A 16th-Century Astronomy Book Featured “Analog Computers” to Calculate the Shape of the Moon, the Position of the Sun, and MoreJanuary 13, 2021 at 10:03 AM  Tags: Google, Facebook, Books, Astronomy, College, History, Cambridge, Seoul, Atlas Obscura, Facebook Twitter, Johannes Kepler, Katie Taylor, Colin Marshall, Ellen Rubin, 21st Century Los Angeles, Whipple Library 94 people like this. Like 9 Best Comfortable Winter Shoes for Trekking Across Campus in StyleJanuary 13, 2021 at 9:30 AM  Tags: Boots, Winter, Shopping, College, Shoes, Winter Boots, Trekking Across Campus 81 people like this. Like How to Talk with a Conspiracy Theorist (and Why People Believe Conspiracy Theories in the First Place): What the Experts RecommendJanuary 13, 2021 at 7:00 AM Tags: Psychology, Google, Politics, College, Current Affairs, Reddit, University of Pennsylvania, Vox, Bill Nye, Daniel, Facebook Twitter, Pew Research, Josh Jones, University of California Irvine, Cass Sunstein, MIT Technology Review 140 people like this. Like 'China-watching' is a lucrative business. But whose language do the experts speak? | Yangyang ChengJanuary 13, 2021 at 6:14 AM The question of whether one needs to be able to speak Chinese to understand China has never been so fraughtI remember the muted pain in my classmate’s voice when he raised his hand to speak. He wanted to know why, as a Chinese person studying science in China, he was required to take English and pass proficiency tests in order to graduate. “Leave English to the English majors,” he said.The teacher explained that English is the global language of science: the best journals are published in Englis...Tags: Education, China, World news, Asia Pacific, Yangyang Cheng 25 people like this. Like If you want to truly understand China, do you need to be able to speak Chinese? | Yangyang ChengJanuary 13, 2021 at 6:14 AM As a student, I learned English was the language of opportunity – a belief that keeps most Chinese invisible to the global eliteI remember the muted pain in my classmate’s voice when he raised his hand to speak. He wanted to know why, as a Chinese person studying science in China, he was required to take English and pass proficiency tests in order to graduate. “Leave English to the English majors,” he said.The teacher explained that English is the global language of science: the best journals ar...Tags: Education, China, World news, Asia Pacific, Yangyang Cheng 41 people like this. Like Social Psychologist Erich Fromm Diagnoses Why People Wear a Mask of Happiness in Modern Society (1977)January 13, 2021 at 4:00 AM  Tags: Psychology, Google, College, Current Affairs, Philosophy, Un, Albert Camus, Facebook Twitter, Josh Jones, Erich Fromm, Camus, Durham NC Follow, Maria Popova, Jacobin, Fromm, Frankfurt School 74 people like this. Like Amazon makes education push in India with JEE preparation appJanuary 13, 2021 at 2:47 AM  Tags: Amazon, Google Play Store, Apps, Asia, Education, India, Tech, Amazon India, Amazon Future Engineer, Amazon Academy, Amol Gurwara 58 people like this. Like How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale RebuildingJanuary 13, 2021 at 1:18 AM Many business leaders are convinced that large-scale change is necessary to bounce back from difficult times. But a professional soccer team's surprise success shows that smaller measures can work better, write Boris Groysberg and colleagues. [Author: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr]Tags: College, Boris Groysberg, by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr, Boris Groysberg Sascha L Schmidt, Sebastian Flegr 39 people like this. Like |
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