Personalized Learning

Best of Fall

Tom Vander Ark

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.

EdTech

Certification Promotes Quality, Colleges Play a Role

Tom Vander Ark

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.  She makes a case below for certification and school of ed training.  The Digital Learning Council is likely to recommend path-speicific performance-based certification after demonstrated…

Personalized Learning

Trenton Looks to Go Bold

Getting Smart Staff

Students learning online were the stars of a NJ leg hearing yesterday. Former Gov Bob Wise, disrupter Michael Horn, online learning organizer Susan Patrick, and choice advocate Jeanne Allen provided backup.

EdTech

The Rough and Tumble Social Cost of Learning

Getting Smart Staff

Social scientists using a sample of over 13,000 students, averaging about 15 years old, have examined whether social acceptance or ostracism has any bearing on academic achievement. It turns out that it may have a profound effect on how students of color perform in school.

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Georgia Families Get Virtual Charters Boost

Getting Smart Staff

Georgia Families for Public Virtual Education (GFPVE) applauds the Georgia Chamber of Commerce for its public support of the charter school law, House Bill (HB) 881. The Chamber filed a brief with the Georgia State Supreme Court last week arguing state-authorized schools provide a strong alternative to traditional brick and mortar public schools and locally authorized charter schools.