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Personalized Learning
The Pivot to Digital Learning: 40 Predictions
We're living through a historic shift from batch print education to personal digital learning. Here's how it will play out over the next 1, 5, and 10 years.
EdTech
Effective Education Needs Effective Evaluation
Value-added evaluation becomes a bigger story; more teachers may be more effective than we think, but there's nothing in place that really evaluates them well. Here's a look at advocacy news across the states and the ed reform zeitgeist.
EdTech
Chicago Parents Demand Ed Variety, More Charters
Parents in Chicago rally for more charters, more choice, and different selection processes for their kids.
Personalized Learning
The Good School Promise
Joel Klein closed bad schools, opened good schools, and became America's leading education reform advocate
EdTech
INCS Addresses Inaccurate Reporting on Charters
The Illinois Network of Charter Schools addresses two reports recently published that do not accurately depict transfer rates or the characterizations of magnet schools and charters. Here is a link to their response and some sections of their comments on the reporting.
EdTech
Grassroots Want More Funding for Virtual Charters
A grassroots group down in Georgia has taken to lobbying for what they say is necessary funding equanimity between what traditional public schools get, and what virtual charters are alloted.
EdTech
NY State DOE Hiring for New Charter Authorizing Role
New York State Department of Education is hiring a new leader to help with charter authorizing with the Regents' board and they are launching a new state school turnaround office. Click for details...
EdTech
5 Ways to Deliver Blended Learning
This entire article looks at five different ways that K12, the nation's largest online education provider, uses blended learning to help schools and teach students. This is a good article for administrators, parents and teachers, because it explains how learning is done digitally.
Personalized Learning
Why Standardize When We Should Personalize?
Follow up on yesterday's National Journal post with great questions from Chad.
EdTech
Maximizing Potential of All Students
Are KIPP Schools really "drill and kill" factories that drive students to exhaustion. Not really, despite contentions that this is what makes some of them so successful. Here is a column from Jay Matthews, via an email from Whitney Tilson, philanthropist and ed reformer.