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21 helpful apps for teachers and educators Posted: 08 Oct 2016 06:15 AM PDT Students shouldn't be the only ones trying to use their smartphones and tablets in the classroom. Check out our top picks for the best apps for teachers and educators, whether you're looking to post grades, assign readings, or merely stay organized.

Reflections on What 9/11 Meant in Afghanistan Posted: 07 Oct 2016 04:30 PM PDT Mohammad Sayed Madadi is currently getting a master's degree at Stanford. But he spent part of his childhood under the Taliban, and he remembers the American intervention after the 9/11 attacks—which started 15 years ago today and ultimately toppled that government—as seeming to herald a new era for him. It did, but not exactly in the way he hoped. Sayed got an education that would never have been possible under the Taliban, and saw his sisters do the same. He has also witnessed continuing bloodshed in his country, and was himself injured in an ISIS bombing in Kabul this summer that killed some 80 people. "Afghanistan is a much better country than it was in 2001," he writes. "Is that enough?"

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