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Monday, June 7th, 2010
Nearly all school boards in India today teach computers & programming. I am more familiar with the central boards - ICSE & CBSE. In ICSE syllabus you learn about computers (Microsoft Office, internet browsers etc) in primary school (may be 4th, 5th grades) and in 9th grade you can opt ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Obama in his weekly radio/web address on Dec 6, 2008 said he would make broadband accessible to every child in the US.
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Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Yesterday I had a very interesting conversation with my cousin from US. We met her family after 11 years. We were talking about her son's extra-curricular activities. One of her sons went to National Youth Leadership Forum in Washington DC.
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Saturday, May 26th, 2007
I think it is the worst time to be a student in Karnataka. The government has been going after schools that are not teaching Kannada. Frankly, the problem itself is not clear. Sometimes I get a feeling the govt is insisting the medium of education should be Kannada but when ...
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