Personalized Learning
Don’t kill the guys that will make the US #1 again
Harkin follows the lead of a short-selling hedge fund manager and attacks private colleges; in doing so he's working against the president's completion goal of being 1st in the world by 2020.
Personalized Learning
MA "Innovation" Regs Block Innovation
Disastrous online learning regs considered in MA provides no waivers, limits enrollment to local districts and limits size to 500 students. This is one place where small schools is a dumb idea.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Personalized Learning
Build a Flexible Frame for Teacher Eval
Teacher effectiveness should be based largely on performance but we need to build flexible systems and evaluation language to incorporate new data from better sources including content-embedded assessment.
Personalized Learning
Credit Recovery vs. Dropout Recovery
EdWeek made it seem like online credit recovery is something new, but folks have been at it for 15 years. New dropout recovery models like AdvancePath and PLC build a web of support that gets kids back on track.