Even as many states have made sweeping changes, which also include increasing the number of charter schools and rewarding teachers based on student achievement, most are not doing enough to implement education policies that will better serve students and schools, according to StudentsFirst, which was founded by former District of Columbia Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee.

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Check out the amazing documentary A Small Act about Kenyan Chris Mburu, a UN human rights lawyer, wanting to give young Kenyans the education opportunities he had because of the sponsorship of a retired Swedish schoolteacher and Holocaust survivor, Hilde Back (Mburu started the Hilde Back foundation). In the film, he said that, for many Kenyan children, “education is survival.” It’s not “only” a matter of having better prospects, he said. If we’re educated, we can’t be exploited – or at least, we reduce the likelihood.

In case you missed it, Coursera announced its new “Signature Track” option for credentialing students (and making money for Coursera) and connecting them to future employers. It’s future could be in: headhunting. It’s Signature Track program that will track a student’s certificates, linking them to an identity and allowing them to show employers these credentials.

Recent graduates with a technical or vocational associate degree average higher earnings than four-year graduates in three states analyzed by CollegeMeasures. In Virginia, the average technical associate degree graduate earned $49,000 a year between 2006 and 2010.

Fourteen faculty members or groups at Stanford University have received seed funding from the office of the Vice Provost for Online Learning (VPOL) to develop innovative courses for Stanford students or reach beyond campus to teach massive open online courses (MOOCs).