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DonorsChoose.org, myEDmatch team to identify “entrepreneurial teachers”
Education startup myEDmatch has quickly—seven months since launch—caught the eye of DonorsChoose.org, the nonprofit that since 2000 has raised about $180 million for classroom projects. The Kansas City startup, which offers teachers and administrators “online dating for education jobs,” now provides users the ability to showcase a DonorsChoose.org project on their profile. “Our partnership with myEDmatch…
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Charles Best sees big change afoot in how ideas come to life (Video)
It didn’t take much time teaching at an underfunded New York high school for Charles Best to realize the severity of the disparity between opportunities enjoyed by students at different schools in the U.S. “When I started teaching in the Bronx,” Best said, “I saw firsthand that all schools are not created equal.” Best and…
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What Cheer uses DonorsChoose API to highlight Omaha schools in need
Charles Best created DonorsChoose to make it easy for anyone to help students in need. Last week, the crew from What Cheer made it a little easier Best spoke Friday morning at Big Omaha about DonorsChoose, the website he founded that allows public school teachers to post classroom project requests and, in turn, lets donors…
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Charles Best: ‘Push intelligence out to the edge’
Every year at Big Omaha there seems to be one speaker that unites the hearts of every person in the room at KANEKO. This year at Big Omaha 2012, I have a feeling that Charles Best was that speaker. Best is the founder of DonorsChoose.org, a nonprofit organization that provides a simple, personal and accountable…
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Read up on the Big Omaha 2012 Friday speakers
Already pick out your clothes in anticipation of Big Omaha? Now, it’s time for you to do your homework on the speaker lineup. Lucky for you, we’ve done the hard part and put together a series of links on the latest news and videos of each of the speakers in hopes of building your enthusiasm…
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Get to know the Big Omaha 2012 Thursday speakers
Already pick out your clothes in anticipation of Big Omaha? Now, it’s time for you to do your homework on the speaker lineup. Lucky for you, we’ve done the hard part and put together a series of links on the latest news and videos of each of the speakers in hopes of building your enthusiasm…