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Jeff Kwitowski at K12, Inc.

Lori Gully Florida Virtual School

Gov. Bob Wise Announces Digital Learning Day

The Alliance for Excellent Education and its partners call on teachers, schools, principals, community leaders, parents, and students to participate in the first-ever national Digital Learning Day February 1, 2011.

Knewton Secures $33 Million to Expand Personalized Ed

Knewton announced today the completion of $33 million round of funding, led by Founders Fund and Pearson, to accelerate expansion of the company’s Adaptive Learning Platform™. The award-winning platform transforms third-party educational content by personalizing it to each individual student, allowing educators to remix any publisher’s educational materials. Adaptive…

Digital Media & Learning Competition Leverages Open Badges

A new game-based strategy called Digital Media and Learning Competition, hosted by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, HASTAC, and Mozilla, plans to leverage badges and badge systems to help people learn and demonstrate skills and knowledge.

BCG Reports Technology as a Catalyst for Change in Primary and Secondary Education

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) released “Unleashing the Potential of Technology in Education,” a report articulating how technology can serve as a catalyst for change in primary and secondary education, today.

AdvancePath Boosts Utica Grad Rates

The superintendents of Utica and Baltimore County credit the introduction of AdvancePath academies with boosting graduation rates

iNACOL Calls for a Comprehensive Policy Redesign

The International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) released "Cracking the Code: Synchronizing Policy and Practice for Performance-Based Learning" this July, a report stating that it will take a "comprehensive policy redesign" to move toward performance-based learning models beyond traditional K-12 advancement.

K12 Inc. and Blackboard Work Together to Provide Quality Developmental Education

BlackboardTV released a video July 28, 2011 featuring K12 Inc.’s Vice President Gregg Levin discussing the unique partnership between K12 Inc. and Blackboard to provide quality developmental education for students in primary and secondary education.

AEE Digital Learning Policy Recommendations and Promising Practices

AEE released their newest policy brief titled “Digital Learning and Technology: Federal Policy Recommendations to Seize the Opportunity– and Promising Practices That Inspire Them”, supporting the increased development and implementation of digital learning initiatives in K-12 education.