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This course seeks to answer the question: how did a school system, once the envy of the world, stumble so that the performance in math, science, and reading of U.S. students at age 15 fell below that of students in a majority of the world’s industrialized nations?

We start by identifying the personalities and historical forces—the progressives, racial desegregation, legalization and collective bargaining—that shaped and re-shaped U.S. school politics and policy. We visit the places where new ideas and practices were spawned, and we look at some of their unanticipated consequences.

From there, we seek answers to a second question: What are the best ways of lifting the performance of American schools to a higher level? To explore these questions, we look at ideas and proposals of those who want to save our schools—be it by reforming the teaching profession, holding schools accountable, or giving families more school choices. In interviews with reform proponents and independent experts, we capture the intensity of the current debate. In the end, we do not find any silver bullets that can magically lift schools to a new level of performance, but we do pinpoint the pluses and minuses of many new approaches to education reform.

Perfect for those wanting to learn how to play the saxophone. From opening your case to playing your first melodies.

Move beyond the basics of saxophone playing and onto more intermediate fundamentals, exercises, and melodies.

Learn a slow, expressive, and melodic etude, Adagio con Espressione

Learn three, increasingly difficult, and stylistically different intermediate saxophone solos.

Examine the financial concepts that inform the value of stocks and bonds and how to make smart decisions as an investor.

Scala for Java Developers: Transition Up!

This course is designed to teach you about managing application containers, using Kubernetes. We've built this course in partnership with experts such as Kelsey Hightower and Carter Morgan from Google and Netflix’s former Cloud Architect, Adrian Cockcroft (current Technology Fellow at Battery Ventures), who provide critical learning throughout the course. Mastering highly resilient and scalable infrastructure management is very important, because the modern expectation is that your favorite sites will be up 24/7, and that they will roll out new features frequently and without disruption of the service. Achieving this requires tools that allow you to ensure speed of development, infrastructure stability and ability to scale. Students with backgrounds in Operations or Development who are interested in managing container based infrastructure with Kubernetes are recommended to enroll! In this course you will learn to: - Containerize an application by creating Docker config files and build processes to produce all the necessary Docker images - Configure and launch an auto-scaling, self-healing Kubernetes cluster - Use Kubernetes to manage deploying, scaling, and updating your applications - Employ best practices for using containers in general, and specifically Kubernetes, when architecting and developing new microservices

Over the past several decades, operations strategy has played an increasingly important role in business’ success. In this course, we will equip you with concepts and tools to build operations in a way that not only supports your competitive strategy, but also allows you to create new opportunities in the market place.

What wisdom does Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, pass to the next generation of entrepreneurs and business leaders? The i

Learning from criminals: How to thwart commonplace scams and reduce the likelihood of becoming a victim of crime.

In many ways Scandinavian film and television is a global cultural brand, connected with and exporting some of the cultural and social values connected to a liberal and progressive welfare society. This course deals with the social, institutional and cultural background of film and television in Scandinavia and in a broader European and global context.

Sell More & Sell Faster with the most effective psychological sales trigger

Using Mental Ray in 3ds Max, you'll learn how to create stunning scenes by lighting them correctly.

What are the circuits, mechanisms and representations that permit the recognition of a visual scene from just one glance? In this one-day seminar on Scene Understanding, speakers from a variety of disciplines - neurophysiology, cognitive neuroscience, visual cognition, computational neuroscience and computer vision - will address a range of topics related to scene recognition, including natural image categorization, contextual effects on object recognition, and the role of attention in scene understanding and visual art. The goal is to encourage exchanges between researchers of all fields of brain sciences in the burgeoning field of scene understanding.

Everything you need to know to scent your soaps effectively.

Learn how to beat the competition and win the college scholarships you deserve.

Go from what are scholarships to how to receive the most free money in support of your college education

Learn from the INVESTyR DealTeam about Agile Financial Modeling and realize that done is better than perfect.

Learn how to use rewards-based crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo with the help of crowdfunding experts