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Stephen Downes

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Interesting. "Instead of 'No Child Left Behind,'" said (Sun CEO Scott) McNealy, "we [want] 'No Child Held Back.'" This is the thinking behind his announcement last Wednesday at EDUCAUSE "that it (Sun) is spinning off its effort to create an online, open-source educational resource library as a nonprofit organization." The Global Education Learning Community is "an effort to create open-source educational materials for primary and secondary learning, including textbooks and tests." Cool.

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