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Silicon Valley’s New-Age AltSchool

Source: Wired Magazine

Since its founding in 2014, with backing from the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Andreessen Horowitz, and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, the San Francisco startup has opened eight of its new-age AltSchools in the Bay Area and New York City. It sees these as mini educational labs where it’s working to create a new kind of personalized educational for the 21st century, and now, the company is sharing its philosophies with the outside world. This morning, it announced that three outside schools will use its platform: Berthold Academy in Reston, Virginia; The Greene School in West Palm Beach, Florida; and Temple Beth Sholom Day School in Miami Beach, Florida. The eventual goal, says chief operating officer Cody Johnson, is to apply the company’s formula to a network of private, public, and charter schools across the US. Today, AltSchool is taking a step toward achieving that aim. Altschool Isn’t just for Altschool anymore. The three … Continued

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Hey Silicon Valley: President Obama Has a To-Do List for You

Source: Wired Magazine

ASK NOT WHAT  the government can do for Silicon Valley; ask what Silicon Valley can do for the government. That’s President Obama’s tack, anyway. He presented WIRED with six challenges he feels the tech industry needs to address—just a few earthshaking problems the country could use some help with, that’s all. We reached out to six of the biggest names in the WIRED world, and we gave each of them a challenge from the president’s list. Then we asked: To get this done, what’s the industry’s best play?   1. TACKLE INEQUALITY. Tim O’Reilly, investor and founder of O’Reilly Media Silicon Valley runs on stories. So does the economy in general. We create what we believe in. If we believe we can use technology to identify and solve big problems, then that’s what we’ll do. Unfortunately, right now too many people think of technology as something that eliminates jobs through … Continued

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Peek into what it’s like to get hired at Google

Source: Business Insider

Last year, Google’s senior vice president of People Operations, Laszlo Bock, peeled back the curtain on Google’s management style and culture with the publication of his book “Work Rules!” The bestseller is chock-full of insights that explain what it’s really like to be hired at what’s consistently been ranked one of the best companies to work for in the US. We rounded up some of the most compelling takeaways from the book, as well as from recent interviews Bock has given. Read on to find out what makes the tech giant so awesome — and what your company can learn from them.   1. Google sets its sights high.   Google’s mission is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Bock says it’s a moral goal, not a business one, and represents the culture that the company’s leaders are trying to create. It’s intentionally impossible … Continued

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