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By: J-PAL North America
The New Mexico Legislative Finance Committee will partner with J-PAL to explore an evaluation of the state's early college high schools, which aim to increase college preparation. 
By: Joe Diaz
The pK-12 Action Group returned to Hong Kong once again this summer to lead a highly successful STEAM camp in collaboration with the Chinese International School (CIS).
By: Hannah Blair and Efua Bortsie
See how MITx and MicroMasters helps a team in Botswana get connected to education and evidence. 
By: Judith Thurman
MIT's Evelina Fedorenko discusses language with the New Yorker. "We begin by asking how language fits into the broader architecture of the mind".
By: Rachel Hentsch
If you have time to read this, you might have time to change the world. Join the u.lab MOOC on MITx to learn how to create the change we need via a series of highly experiential edX courses created by MIT lecturers.
By: MIT Open Learning
Congratulations to MIT's Chris Caplice and Justin Reich on winning the 2018 MITx Prize for Teaching and Learning in MOOCs. Chris is performing important research with his team on how to keep more learners engaged in MOOCs. 
By: Opening Doors
Hear from MIT VP Sanjay Sarma as he discuses the Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL) after one year of shaping education. 
By: David Orenstein
Scientists present dueling theories in the high-stakes quest to understand how we hold and juggle multiple pieces of information in mind.
By: Anne Trafton
One barrier to effective education is cost. MIT and Northwestern have teamed up to create affordable biology kits to offer students hands-on learning.
By: Rob Matheson
Personalized machine-learning models capture subtle variations in facial expressions to better gauge how we feel.