Posts by Getting Smart Staff
Unfair Virtual Schools Funding in GA, Group Claims
A parent organization in Georgia claims that the State of Georgia is not allocating appropriate levels of funding to virtual schools, despite a state law that mandates it should.
Berkery Noyes Information Industry Half Year Reports
You can read the summaries of four Information and Media industry half year reports inside, or you can click on the links after each summary and download the pdfs to take them with you.
Design Fix
Joel Rose, CEO of School of One in New York City, answers questions in the run up to the Innovate to Education Symposium being held by SIIA at the Harvard Club in Boston August 4-6, 2010. For more information on the symposium and to register, please see details inside.
Tangible Research is a Business Education
Guest blogger Hawwa Mohammad, who works with the Newark Center for Collaborative Change, explains how universities are commercializing research by linking professorial ideas with real business. The point is, pairing research and learning with business is a good idea, because universities are the nexus for community involvement.
Personalize and Deliver
As a prelude to the Innovate to Educate Symposium in Boston on August 4-6, 2010, we run another in a series of interviews with personalized learning experts. Here we ask Howard Gardner to tell us about his vision for personalized learning in an age of education reform. Howard Gardner is the Hobbs Professor for Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
The Dropout Crisis
In this special feature, we interview Richard Lee Colvin, who guest edited “Fighting the Dropout Crisis” in the July-August edition of the Washington Monthly. He is a longtime journalist who heads the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, Teachers College, Columbia University, and is editor of The Hechinger Report. See links to this work inside.
Measuring Text Space
What impact have digital resources had on the choices librarians and districts make about reading materials available in public school libraries?
ISTE Notes
@AudreyWatters posted on her blog that she was surprised that many people didn't post their thoughts on ISTE in Colorado this year. We thought so, too. Frank Catalono was one of the people posting notes from the forum. We link to those here for you to check out.
Achievement First Hiring in RI
Achievement First is looking for a new leader for their first Rhode Island School.
Stop the Dropout Churn
We found this interesting report by Richard Lee Colvin at the Hechinger Institute at Teachers' College at Columbia University. Read through.