Developments
Developments:
- Provost Academy launched a virtual high school in CO; Provost is an early example of 2nd gen content developed as learning objects
- A couple start-ups working around the big guys and developing high school elective content
- More evidence that charters work as outlined by James Merriman
- TX drops out of the Race; too bad, Commissioner Scott would have put up a good plan
May become a development, let’s wait and see:
Meanwhile:
- Heels digging in during the last two weeks before the Race to the Top deadline (eg, NY poison pill, AL charter law)
- And hearings for the $350m assessment grant program; what the Department didn’t hear is that states have self-organized into 4 camps with CCSSO and Achieve in the middle:
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- Formative as summative: can’t we just use teacher assessments like the do in Europe (NE)
- Adaptive: why not take advantage of computer based assessment (OR)
- Comprehensive: let’s add performance assessment to the mix (WV)
- Comparable & efficient: lock in Common Core gains with a full suite of common end of course exams (FL)
Imagine:
- Importing school models and learning platforms from other countries. I saw traffic on Swedish, Israel, and Chinese learning platforms this week. If we don’t start investing in education innovation, we’ll soon have a trade deficit there as well.
- Some good news on edu-trade balance; Noble offering American high school diploma in Korea
And, from the Undaunted Courage department
- A Kauffman study indicates that the number of start ups appears unfazed by the recession
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