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.
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.
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.
Future of PharmD: Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
Professional schools, particularly in health care, are preparing students for a dynamic and challenging work place. Blended learning and simulations are becoming more common as is a focus on 21st century skills.
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.
The Internet is What We Make It
David Brooks rehashs Carr's 'the Internet makes us dumb' argument but ends in the right spot--it's up to us to build powerful learning experiences that harness the web.