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Online Com/Tech College Enrollments Grow
This story about increased online community college enrollment in Louisiana is interesting for a couple reasons: 1. Online Community and Technical College enrollment jumped 43%-a combination of more courses and worse economy. 2. Students and colleges saved money learning online. 3. Increased ability to take CC…
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In Case You Wanted a Rebuttal
EdWeek ran a ridiculous op-ed by David Marshak, of Eastern Washington University. Here’s the brief response: Marshak’s logic is flawed, his data is bad, and his history revised. Over 1200 new schools were funded through dozens of networks with strong design principals including the emergence of CMOS-the…
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World Language (and a Head Bob)
HYDERABAD. I’ve come to understand what Wikipedia calls a world language, “a language spoken internationally, which is learned by many people as a second language.” But it’s not quite as crisp as a ‘language spoken internationally,’ it is more a way of understanding. After a month of careening around…
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Gentlemen, Start Your Hearings (But Let the Race Run)
Here we go. McNeil outlines House plans to begin ESEA reauthorization hearings starting with charter schools (great place to start). Miller and Kline are thoughtful and could actually put together a decent bipartisan draft. No word from the Senate where it’s harder to imagine anything thoughtful happening.
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Thoughts on Consumer Learning
Consumer learning will get big. Consumer learning will be social. Consumer learning will be freemium: free plus premium services. Consumer learning will incorporate Massively Multiplayer Online learning games and learning environments (MMOLG, MMOLE). Consumer learning will mobilize money, energize entrepreneurs, and personalize a process that for…
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More Online Learning, NOW!
More online learning, now! In a new report, Alliance for Excellent Education suggests that online learning can help solve the skill gap, the funding gap, and the teacher gap. Since leaving office five years ago former West Virginia Governor Bob Wise has been the leading federal policy…
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Pearson Vision Impressive
Textbook publishers are catching a lot of grief these day, some of it deserved. But I met with a Pearson exec this morning and continue to be impressed by the leadership of this company (with whom I have a business relationship). Long before Obama landed on readiness, Pearson realigned…
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Skill, Funding & Teacher Gap Point to Online Learning
Read this great online learning report from AEE, federal policy warrior for high school success. Gov. Bob Wise makes the case that we can’t solve the skills gap, the funding gap, or the teacher gap without fulling incorporating online learning. (more on this to come)…
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Teacher Quality Means Some Must Go
The President and Secretary deserve credit for advancing the teacher quality agenda–a tough thing for democrats to do. Some of the credit for that goes to Jon Schnur and DFER. Because we don’t have very good predictive techniques, it’s important to watch teachers in their first few years,…
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Brookings Makes Thoughtful Recommendations on Choice
Brookings released a thoughtful report encouraging expanding K-12 choice including the following recommendations choice be exercised through systems in which parents have more options than at present (with the expansion of virtual education programs being a promising means to that end); admission into particular schools within choice systems be…