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Former Sun CEO hopes the world is his classroom. McNealy says nonprofit Curriki Web site encourages learning – and it’s all free!

McNealy has spent most of the past year as the leading pitchman for Curriki, a nonprofit group that’s trying to build a mega-Web site of educational materials that teachers, students and parents anywhere in the world can use, modify, critique and expand on. And they can do all that for free.

Bill Gates’ syllabus for tech and education

Gates said he believes that the reasons people select great universities or schools–access to professors’ lectures, the ability to discuss issues with other students and the need to attend classes to gain a degree–will all be changed by technology.

Duke Program Seeks to Expand Service Work

Duke University announced yesterday that it would create a program backed by $30 million, half from a donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to help students work on projects like teaching at a school in Durham, N.C., or building one in Kenya.

Business schools warming to environmental concerns

Business schools are going green.

‘One Laptop per Child’ comes closer to reality

Few projects are as important or utopian as Nicholas Negroponte’s newest obsession. With the energy of a true believer, he wants to put laptops into the hands of every school-age child with his "One Laptop Per Child" nonprofit project.

North Dakota could solve ed funding feud out of court

North Dakota’s Legislature this session will make or break an experiment by Gov. John Hoeven (R) and key stakeholders in public education to avoid the path that has embroiled 45 states, including North Dakota previously, in school-finance lawsuits that can drag on for years and sow long-lived bad feelings.

Rural Colleges Seek New Edge and Urbanize

Pfficials have realized that a more urbanized version of the ideal campus could attract a population well past its college years — working people and retiring baby boomers — if there is housing to suit them. And so a new concept of the college campus is taking root: a small city in the country that is not reserved for only the young.

New Wyoming high school will provide more learning opportunities

To work out the details, the district has hired an organization called Applied Minds Inc., of Glendale, Calif., which the district says creates and designs innovative learning environments. According to the company’s Web site, it consists of artists, scientists and engineers.

Microsoft talks up technology to kids

During a speech in Redmond, which was webcast to teens gathered in Atlanta, New York, Silicon Valley and elsewhere, Ballmer announced a software grant worth $5 million over three years to the National Urban League, a 97-year-old organization aimed at economic and social empowerment of African Americans.

History Teacher Becomes Podcast Celebrity

Mr. Brownworth’s podcast competes favorably with far more conventional and credentialed online fare — university courses in beginning French or Psychology 101, test-prep drills for the SAT. Even the other highly rated personal podcasts, like “Word Nerds” and “Grammar Girl,” appeal to dependably large audiences for etymology and grammar.