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Students Report On the Oakland Occupy Movement

Students from the Media Enterprise Alliance at KDOL-TV reported on the Occupy Movement at Frank Ogawa Plaza and other locations in Oakland, Calif. in late January 2012. These students demonstrated talented reporting, telling the story of the protest through a different lens than the mainstream media.

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Students Inspire College Readiness With Street Art

Voting ends today on SchoolTube's video competition Going Mindless, which encourages students to express change in their schools or communities by modeling the youthful, positive change by the R&B band Mindless Behavior. The band will pick their favorite student video to award an exclusive Mindless Behavior concert at their school.

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Middle Schoolers Flash Mob for Reading

Sedgwick Middle School in West Hartford, CT created and published a flash mob dance on SchoolTube to encourage reading to the tune of the hit Black Eyed Peas song "I Gotta Feeling" in their own rendition "Gotta Keep Reading." It's evident that the middle schoolers in this video are having a lot of fun expressing how much they love reading. This would be a fun tune to play before in-class reading time to get students excited and focused on reading.

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Knewton Secures $33 Million to Expand Personalized Ed

Knewton announced today the completion of $33 million round of funding, led by Founders Fund and Pearson, to accelerate expansion of the company’s Adaptive Learning Platformâ„¢. The award-winning platform transforms third-party educational content by personalizing it to each individual student, allowing educators to remix any publisher’s educational materials. Adaptive…