Ed Policy
Education policy consists of news, commentary and stories that follow legislation and government action in the educational sphere.
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The Digital Learning Opportunity & What it Means for School Finance
Learning opportunities are expanding and improving around the country. With online and blended learning, students are gaining access to personalized learning and expanded options.
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Jeb Bush: Keep Students at the Center of Edreform
In his keynote, Bush dedicated the Summit “to great teachers, without whom no amount of education reform would be successful. Great teachers need to be recognized and rewarded.”
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Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning
A system of teacher development linked to the needs of hiring entities that awarded licenses based on demonstrated competence would provide personalized development pathways for teachers and ensure well-trained teachers for schools.
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Preparing School Leaders
It's exciting and encouraging to see some of the folks training high performing leaders thinking about blended personalized learning for leaders--not just students. It suggests the potential for more efficient and effective replacements for the system of courses, credits, and credentials. However, enacting these ten attributes at scale would require new state policies governing licensure.
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The ASD Catapults Schools to the Top in Tennessee
The ASD seeks to "dramatically expand our students' life and career options, engage parents and community members in new and exciting ways, and ensure a bright future for the state of Tennessee."
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Building Buzz in Detroit
The EAA has built a blended professional development course for teachers inside of Buzz that uses a variety of resources to help teachers learn how to build a strong learning environment through fostering relationships, creating a common language, developing a shared classroom vision and establishing rituals and routines.
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Infographic: How to Implement Blended Learning 2.0
Today we released the updated Blended Learning Implementation Guide and How to Implement Blended Learning Version 2.0 infographic.
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Blended Learning Implementation 2.0 Released!
Today with Digital Learning Now! (DLN), a national initiative under the Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd) and The Learning Accelerator (TLA), we released “Blended Learning Implementation Guide Version 2.0."
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10 Promising Models & What it Means for Leaders
The shift to digital holds great promise for students and teachers but it will be challenging and confusing for leaders. As the toolset improves, it will become somewhat easier to create high performing platform-centric districts and networks.
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The 10 Elements: Forward Lean Versus Fast Retreat
The chance to create new tools and new schools that work better for students and teachers has never been better. In this decade we have the opportunity to dramatically improve education in Detroit as well as Delhi.