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University Admissions, Now Twice As Hard For Asian Americans

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Post date April 23, 2014

Facing a double barrier explorewithmeg

-OpEd- This is the time of year when American colleges inform applicants whether they’ll be accepted or not. Admission to prestigious universities grows tougher every year. Stanford University“s acceptance rate has fallen from 22.4% in 1970 to 5.7% in 2013. It’s the same for the University of Chicago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, […]

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Meet The Woman Leading The Online Education Revolution

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Post date August 31, 2012

Professor Daphne Koller at the TED conference TED

PALO ALTO – Daphne Koller has a grudge against school. As a child, Israeli-born Koller wanted to solve third degree equations and learn more about dancing, Ancient Greece and poetry. But like any other pupil, she had to follow the curriculum and adapt to the system. Her thirst for learning faced the limits of mainstream […]

Tags coursera, daphne koller, daphne koller education digital princeton, digital revolution, e-learning, flip classroom, flip eductation, flip teaching, harvard, ia, MIT, mooc, princeton, Stanford, united states, upenn

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