Selection criteria included residence in the study site, respect in the community, and at least 7 years of primary education (which was deemed the minimum amount of educational attainment necessary to facilitate comprehension of their tasks and the job aids provided).
No amount of "educational reform" can change this.
Still, some small amount of educational purpose is better than none at all.
The I.R.S. will bankroll what Mr. Williams termed a limited amount of educational materials on the experiment for local nonprofit groups and community newspapers.
Mr. Levy had argued that his proposal would save money -- $8 million to $10 million in capital costs for a federally mandated conversion to digital television transmission -- as well as increase the amount of educational programming.
Apart from distractions, electronic and otherwise, broadcasters have to step through a minefield of regulation: even in the less-regulated United States, they will have to provide a minimum amount of "educational" material from September.
This increases the total amount of educational resources, bringing more opportunities to be distributed and thus changing the existing distribution structure and equality of status.
The motivation behind Oppia, Google explained in its announcement, stems from the fact that, while a growing amount of educational content is now delivered via video and SMS, much of it remains static and asynchronous.
Not unlike Google, Noodle Education wants to organize the world's learning platforms and aggregate the huge amount of educational info out their on the Web into a learning-centric, personalized search and recommendation engine.
Over the last two years, there's been a significant increase in the amount of educational media available to the world's learners, but teachers and parents are hard pressed today to navigate the education content jungle.
