Personalized Learning

What I’m Seeing: Show What You Know

It’s the beginning of the end of pointless post-secondary.  Thousands of young people accumulated mountains of debt from college degrees that aren’t worth much–they didn’t learn much and they aren’t employable. The last two days in GettingSmart.com I’ve discussed the increased focus on outcomes and the development…

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Yale SOM Education Leaders Conference

A leading business school hosting an education conference?  Ten years ago it was unimaginable. Now it happens annually in New Haven.  The students organize a great conference, get edu-superstars to attend, and turn out in droves. Jon Schnur kicked off the Racing to the Top conference with a review…

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No physics teacher? Emerging solutions

You’re a rural principal and you don’t have a physics teacher. What do you do? Eduwonk posed this prompt yesterday. The simple solution is to offer an online course. There are solid offerings in most states (but it does depend on state policies; there are a…

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Public & private investment will benefit edu

The private sector plays a big role in K-12 education especially in the four Ts: textbooks, testing, technology and tutoring.  There has been relatively little R&D spending in education, but most of the useful investment has been by the private sector.  Federal stimulus investments will accelerate efforts to bring quality…

EdTech

Lumina Foundation: We Need to Get Moving

States must increase the number of college degrees awarded each year in the United States, every year, by a total of nearly 280,000 if the nation is to meet the Lumina Foundation for Education's goal of increasing the proportion of American adults with a college degree to 60 percent by 2025.