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The Demise of the SAT2 Subject Tests: Good News or Bad News for College Admission?January 21, 2021 at 12:02 PM  Tags: Amazon, College, China, Uncategorized, US, Ap, Harvard, United States, Sony, Death Star, Philips, Sat, College Board, Tudor England, the College Board, Advanced Placement 142 people like this. Like A Princeton professor warned students not to take his class while in China amid the country's tightening grip on dissentJanuary 18, 2021 at 11:44 AM Tags: Hong Kong, News, Education, College, China, Trends, Higher Education, Chinese communist party, Freedom Of Speech, Princeton, Truex, Princeton University, Academia, Communist Party, Daily Princetonian, Tiananmen Square Massacre 50 people like this. Like The Anti-Gluttony Door in Portugal’s Alcobaça Monastery Shamed Plump Monks to Start FastingJanuary 15, 2021 at 7:00 AM  Tags: Travel, Google, Japan, College, China, Wikipedia, New York City, Religion, Architecture, Food & Drink, Portugal, David Bowie, Macao, Unesco World Heritage, Facebook Twitter, Beckford 94 people like this. Like 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 '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 Inside SuperCharger Ventures’ debut virtual edtech acceleratorJanuary 11, 2021 at 1:29 PM Before the pandemic, edtech companies went decades without raising financing due to lack of interest from generalist venture capitalists. Now, more than a year since COVID-19 began, the sector is showing signs of maturation, from first profits to unicorns, potential IPOs and a rush of talent.
Momentum in mind, cross-border venture capital firm SuperCharger Ventures is launching a debut accelerator exclusively for early-stage edtech founders. The 12-week accelerator, which kicks off today, is bei...Tags: TC, Asia, Accelerator, Europe, Education, China, Tech, United States, Venture Capital, BSD, COVID, Supercharger Ventures, Janos Barberis, Barberis, NextView Ventures NextView Ventures, Taylor Freeman Axon Park 49 people like this. Like COVID, BLM, Kobe, fires and more: Pixels from 2020, by staff photographer David CraneDecember 27, 2020 at 9:00 AM  Tags: Health, Amazon, South Korea, Business, Elections, News, Education, Government, China, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Community, Tokyo, San Jose, Local News 132 people like this. Like Photos: Staff photographer Keith Birmingham shares his images of the year 2020December 26, 2020 at 3:00 PM  Tags: Health, Google, Business, Japan, Usa, News, Sweden, Education, Washington, Government, China, Germany, America, Atlanta, Sport, Ap 75 people like this. Like 5 Great Business Ideas For College Students To Make Money In 2021December 20, 2020 at 2:50 PM  Tags: College, Ebay, China, Sales, Business Ideas, Business Trends, College Students, Dslr, Michael Turner, 2021, Business Ideas For College 117 people like this. Like The Art of Traditional Japanese Wood Joinery: A Kyoto Woodworker Shows How Japanese Carpenters Created Wood Structures Without Nails or GlueDecember 10, 2020 at 10:00 AM  Tags: Google, Art, Facebook, Japan, College, China, Architecture, Nick Offerman, Seoul, Wood, Facebook Twitter, Colin Marshall, Iwakuni, Yamanashi, 21st Century Los Angeles, Dylan Iwakuni 91 people like this. Like Party-State Capitalism in ChinaDecember 8, 2020 at 7:18 PM China’s political economy has evolved from “state capitalism” to a distinctly party-driven incarnation. Party-state capitalism, via enhanced party monitoring and industrial policy, deepens ambiguity between the state and private sectors, and increases pressure on foreign capital, prioritizing the regime’s political survival above all. [Author: by Margaret Pearson, Meg Rithmire, and Kellee Tsai]Tags: College, China, Party, Meg Rithmire, Kellee Tsai, by Margaret Pearson, and Kellee Tsai, Margaret Pearson Meg Rithmire 31 people like this. Like Henry picks up cash to be a Lambda School for Latin AmericaDecember 3, 2020 at 4:29 PM  Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, Europe, Education, Mexico, China, Tech, United States, Argentina, Isa, Edtech, Latin America, Buenos Aires, Nubank, Henry, Luz 81 people like this. Like Children and the Internet at UN Internet Governance Forum: Issues around gaming, online harms, educationNovember 26, 2020 at 2:50 AM The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed children into spending more time online, whether it be for education, recreation, or simply by the virtue to being stuck indoors. It has also increased challenges for parents, policymakers, and companies alike, given that children are exposed to online harms as they spend more time online. On the other hand, the pandemic has shown the deep digital divide, wherein millions of children do not have access to a device and internet connection.
The United Nations Inter...Tags: Travel, Europe, UK, News, Education, Microsoft, Children, Australia, Youtube, China, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, United Nations, Commission, Portugal 14 people like this. Like When ABBA Wrote Music for the Cold War-Themed Musical, Chess: “One of the Best Rock Scores Ever Produced for the Theatre” (1984)November 10, 2020 at 10:00 AM  Tags: Google, Music, UK, London, College, China, India, New York City, Time, Theatre, Bbc, New York Times, Broadway, Moscow, Abba, Andrew Lloyd Webber 78 people like this. Like ByteDance launches its first gadget in a big education pushOctober 29, 2020 at 8:00 AM ByteDance on Thursday unveiled its first consumer hardware product, a smart light lamp with a display, that it says is part of its education technology portfolio as the Chinese internet giant continues to expand to categories beyond social video.
The Dali smart lamp features a display, camera, and a built-in digital assistant. The Dali smart lamp (in Chinese), which starts at $119, is aimed at school-going children who can use the device to finish their homework, ByteDance said (in Chinese) a...Tags: Asia, Hardware, Education, China, India, Tech, New Delhi, Dali, Bytedance, Tiktok, Rita Liao, Dali Education Dali, Dali Education 4 people like this. Like Trump used the news of his son Barron's coronavirus infection to call on schools to reopenOctober 15, 2020 at 6:01 AM Tags: Facebook, Politics, Science, Sweden, Education, Cdc, France, China, US, Trends, Getty Images, Washington Dc, Iowa, News UK, Schools, Donald Trump 89 people like this. Like Academics warn of ‘chilling effect’ of Hong Kong security lawOctober 12, 2020 at 1:00 PM Exclusive: global scholars on China call for agreement to resist interference in researchSome of the world’s leading scholars on China have called for a united international front in defence of university freedoms, amid claims of an increased Chinese threat to academic inquiry since the passing of Hong Kong’s national security law.Individual universities will be picked off unless there is a common agreement to resist Chinese state interference in academic research and teaching on China, a group ...Tags: Hong Kong, Education, China, Germany, UK News, World news, Asia Pacific, Higher Education, Universities, US UK Australia 30 people like this. Like Hong Kong primary teacher deregistered 'for talking about independence'October 6, 2020 at 6:19 AM Teacher accused of violating legislation, reportedly discussing freedom of speech with pupilsA Hong Kong primary school teacher has been deregistered after being accused of using pro-independence materials in class, reportedly to teach students about the concepts of freedom of speech and independence.The education bureau accused the teacher of a premeditated act in violation of Hong Kong’s Basic Law, its de facto constitution, by having “spread a message about Hong Kong independence”. Continue r...Tags: Hong Kong, Education, China, World news, Asia Pacific, Freedom Of Speech 46 people like this. Like Explore a Digital Archive of Student Notebooks from Around the World (1773-Present)October 1, 2020 at 4:00 AM  Tags: Google, Facebook, Books, Japan, Education, College, France, China, Germany, India, Spain, History, Pennsylvania, Italy, Switzerland, Archives 135 people like this. Like Mulan Re-Disneyfied: A Pretty Much Pop Culture Podcast (#62) Discussion with Actor Michael TowSeptember 30, 2020 at 3:01 AM  Tags: Google, Podcasts, Film, College, China, Disney, Mulan, Brooks Barnes, Michael, Facebook Twitter, Time Review, Rebecca Ford, Amy Qin, Pretty Much Pop, Brian Hirt, Erica Spyres Mark Linsenmayer 111 people like this. Like Oxford moves to protect students from China's Hong Kong security lawSeptember 28, 2020 at 12:00 AM Students will submit work related to China anonymously and told not to record classesWho runs Hong Kong: party faithful shipped in to carry out Beijing’s will‘Back where we were’: history repeats for freedom swimmersQuiz: how well do you know Hong Kong’s national security law?Students at Oxford University specialising in the study of China are being asked to submit some papers anonymously to protect them from the possibility of retribution under the sweeping new security law introduced three mon...Tags: Hong Kong, Education, China, UK News, World news, Beijing, Asia Pacific, Higher Education, Oxford, University of Oxford, Oxford University 43 people like this. Like Bizarre virtual kidnapping in Australia highlights risk to Chinese studentsSeptember 25, 2020 at 4:00 PM Virtual kidnappings targeting young Chinese adults are estimated to have netted billions of dollars worldwideWhen someone falls victim to fraud, the common lament is that the con sounded too good to be true. But for the victims of so-called ‘virtual kidnappings’, it is the opposite; it sounds so terrible that it couldn’t be real.In the latest case revealed by police in New South Wales this week, a 22-year-old man was convinced by the scammers that he had to take a female high-school student – a ...Tags: Education, Australia, China, Australia news, Taiwan, Asia Pacific, New South Wales, Crime - Australia, Australian education, International Students Pandemic glossary: Terms that became part of our daily dialogue in the past 6 monthsSeptember 19, 2020 at 11:00 AM  Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, Cdc, China, NFL, Sport, Public Health, Soccer, United Nations, Long Beach, Community, Donald Trump, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Southern California 101 people like this. Like VCs pour funding into edtech startups as COVID-19 shakes up the marketSeptember 11, 2020 at 9:45 AM  Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, Education, China, India, Shanghai, Edtech, Silver Lake, Zuoyebang, Exchange, Jenny Lee, Owl Ventures, Byju, The Exchange, Labster, COVID 136 people like this. Like In 1183, a Chinese Poet Describes Being Domesticated by His Own CatsSeptember 9, 2020 at 4:00 AM  Tags: Google, Facebook, College, China, Poetry, History, Harvard, Korea, Seoul, Ken, Facebook Twitter, Lu, Zhao, Colin Marshall, Michael Puett, Lu You 125 people like this. Like Equity made Estonia an educational front runnerSeptember 8, 2020 at 1:24 PM  Tags: Europe, Supreme Court, Education, China, Singapore, West Virginia, Society, Policy, Teaching, United States, United Kingdom, Testing, Innovation, Korea, Silicon Valley, OECD 140 people like this. Like 9 charts show the emotional toll sending kids back to school is already taking on American parentsSeptember 3, 2020 at 1:36 PM Tags: Twitter, School, News, Education, Washington Post, Cdc, China, Nbc News, US, Trends, Features, New York Times, Kansas, Npr, Yougov, Illinois 60 people like this. Like Campus activists show us how to end gender-based violenceSeptember 1, 2020 at 5:30 AM Protest and resistance thrive proudly on many university campuses. In recent history, students and faculty have organized to protest the Vietnam war in the United States, recognize the occupation of Tiananmen Square in China, resist capitalism in France, and react to many other injustices. More recently, activism to decolonise SOAS in the United Kingdom, to challenge ongoing racism at the University of Missouri, and to push back against tuition hikes in Montréal, Canada, have resulted in meaning...Tags: Books, London, Featured, Activism, Education, Sexual Assault, France, China, Hungary, United States, United Kingdom, Amnesty International, Campus Sexual Assault, Social work, Department Of Education, Social Sciences 34 people like this. Like University of California campuses to phase out single-use plastics, including cups and water bottlesAugust 26, 2020 at 10:00 AM While some efforts to restrict the use of single-use plastics have been stalled by the pandemic, the University of California has announced an aggressive policy to phase out such waste at its 10 campuses and five medical centers.
The plan calls for an end to the use of plastic bags at UC retail and food establishments by January, an end to plastic straws and utensils by next July, and a switch to reusable plates, cups and food containers by July 2022. The sale and distribution of plastic beverag...Tags: News, Education, California, Senate, China, Environment, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Higher Education, UC Berkeley, UC, University Of California, David Phillips, CALPIRG, Top Stories LADN 28 people like this. Like |
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