Mary Ann Bitter

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Mary Ann Bitter is a Creative Strategist for Red Hat's Marketing Communications & Design team. She lives at the intersection of business and design and believes the open source values have never been more relevant than they are today.  She is passionate about problem solving and working with people who give a damn.

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Open*Education: 2011 in review

There is something about a new year that always seems so promising and energizing. It doesn’t seem like too long ago we were saying thank heavens for 2011, and now it’s time…

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Mary Ann
Building stronger public schools: problem solved?

Thanks for all the opinions and thoughts--- interesting points of views.

One thing I should have made clearer --- why is this in the Education channel on opensource.com? To me, the aspects I found promising and outlined above are characteristics, in my opinion, that map to the open source way.

Alexandro, I'd also like to hear about the progress of OLPC-NY -- if you have any insight on this, please send it our way!

Mary Ann
Building stronger public schools: problem solved?

In New York, the average teacher salary is $69,118 (source: http://www.nea.org/home/3677.htm ). $125,000 is 80.9% change over the average teacher salary. I'd say that's headed in the right direction.