What Do Virtual Schools Cost?
Teachers make the difference. Virtual schools & courses can offer some cost savings, but they should receive full funding for a robust academic program with a full complement of trained teachers.
Making College/Career Ready Real
Grades are are a relic of the sorting-machine age-cohort model. Standards-based feedback is a small but critical step toward a personalized competency-based system that makes standards real on a daily basis.
Dawn of the Edupreneurial Revolution
Steve Blank suggests we're in the early stages of an entrepreneurial revolution; I'm quite sure we're in the early stages of an edupreneurial revolution
Tracking Top Education Job Listings
Daily Endeavor is a jobs listing site that tracks job openings, including in ed-related professions and charter schools. Here are this week's top listings.
Americans Falling Behind in Math
A Hanushek study shows that even top US students fall behind international counterparts in math
Does Heroic Leadership Work?
Heroic leadership isn't sustainable, but getting to a high functioning decentralized system takes a hurricane or a hero.
Credit Recovery Goes Mainstream
Online credit recovery helps thousands of students graduate from high school and is an important entry point for personalized digital learning and competency-based education.
Rocketship Tour Notes
Judith McGrath took a City Prep site visit tour. Here are her notes from that visit.
Best of Fall
Here's a dozen blog posts I enjoyed working on this fall; take a look if you missed them the first time around. Happy Thanksgiving.
Certification Promotes Quality, Colleges Play a Role
Lisa Dawley, Boise State, responded to an October 6 story about states adding certification for online learning and a hallway chat at iNACOL’s VSS2010. Â She makes a case below for certification and school of ed training. Â The Digital Learning Council is likely to recommend path-speicific performance-based certification after demonstrated…