Place Based Education
achievement gap
Personalized Learning
What are Teachers Responsible For?
Where does the current emphasis on accountability come from? I think it comes from a desperate need for equity and justice – from the awareness that has been raised by the national high-stakes testing of students that there is a very real and tragic difference in the outcomes of poor students versus those that are more affluent.
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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.
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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.
EdTech
Holiday Gift Idea for the edReformers on your List
Here's an idea for the edReformer on your list: Stacey Childress's book, Leading for Equity: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Montgomery County Public Schools. It came out last year, but in case you missed it -- it is also in paperback
Personalized Learning
The Achievement Recession
Stagnant US achievement levels impose the equivalent of another big recession. Our kids will be the first to see lower levels of prosperity and the slide continues until we confront the PISA reality that we're being out educated.
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Carl Dorvil: Mentoring + Tutoring is Life Changing
Carl Dorvil and Group Excellence combine mentoring and high tech tutoring to change lives in Texas and soon nationwide.
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Empowering Black and Latino Boys in NYC
This past Friday, the NYC Department of Education Office of Community Engagement launched its Empowering Boys website which serves as a one-stop resource for educators to gather and share resources that support Black and Latino boys in reaching their full potential.
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The Last Union Stand?
Union days of wielding power may be numbered; techno panels; Bloomberg praising teachers (well, some of them); new education web sites; policy support; training teachers; student progress; community college all the rage; Bill and Melinda Gates put money into completion rates
Personalized Learning
Tired of Waiting
NBCs Education Nation kicked off with a screening of Waiting for Superman and town hall. Good Randi for showing up, but hard to take her seriously as reformer after squashing Fenty/Rhee in DC.
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Edu-Stumping
Oprah goes big for ed reform; Colin Powell stumps for immigrant rights; Dept of Ed goes viral with video; equity push for new ed commission; get that college paper; minding the achievement gap, again