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Jeb Bush: A Real Shot at Quality at Scale
Jeb Bush supports digital learning “Because it’s the best chance we have to promote rising student achievement at the most rapid rate possible.” Bush delivered a rousing lunch speech at Philanthropy Roundtable’s Technology & the Shift to Student-Centric Learning conference. Former Florida Governor Bush enumerated the unacceptable…
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2011 Excellence in Action National Summit Convenes This Week
Education leaders, lawmakers and policymakers meet tomorrow in San Francisco, Calif. for the annual 2011 Excellence in Action National Summit on Education Reform. The two-day summit is flagship initiative for the Foundation for Excellence in Education (FEE), where participants are immersed in briefings, discussions and debates around research, pilot programs and policies for increasing student achievement.
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States Need to Plan the Shift & Close the Divide
Bob Wise, DLNCo-Chair Over the last ten weeks this blog and video series has featured the Digital Learning Now state policy framework. Co-chair Gov. Bob Wise explains in the final video the importance of infrastructure to deliver on the promise of digital learning. Element #10…
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Funding that Creates Incentives for Performance, Options & Innovation
Doug Potter, Austin Chronicle “How money is spent is as important as how much money is spent in education.” The Digital Learning Now report offers guidance to state policy makers on the technically and politically difficult subject of school finance in a video released today on…
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Assessment Will Advance When It Moves Into the Background
Digital Learning Now is a framework for state education policy for the digital age. Key to quality is Element #8, Assessment and Accountability. On assessment, DLN suggests that states should administer testing online: Administering tests digitally has multiple benefits. Tests can be administered and scored quickly and…
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Authorizing High Performance
Paul Hill's Reinventing Public Education Good measures, clear targets, transparent results, and strong authorizing are all key to improving educational outcomes. Effective authorizing is the quality lynchpin to the Digital Learning Now framework which suggests that “States should hold schools and online providers accountable using student learning…
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Why States Should Contract with Multiple Providers
The Internet has improved the public provision of services in a variety of ways and it is beginning to transform public education. The power of personal digital learning suggests that it doesn’t make sense to limit our children’s opportunity to learn to a local school or geographically defined school…
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Excited and Concerned about the Shift to Personal Digital Learning
Based on a sample of about a hundred educators from 16 southern states, the shift to personal digital learning creates new opportunity and new concerns. In several settings, we discussed factors accelerating the shift: Inexpensive mobile devices, learning apps The shift to online assessments led by two state consortia…
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Innovative Content is Driving the Learning Revolution
MangaHIgh math game Digital Learning Now, an advocacy initiative chaired by former governors Jeb Bush and Bob Wise, released a video this week about promoting high quality digital content. Among the 10 Elements of High Quality Digital Learning, the governors recommend “Digital content, instructional…
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18 Low Tech Ways to Help Kids & Educators Get Smart
I frequently write about new learning technologies, but there are lots of low tech learning innovations (i.e., produce better outcomes and potentially cost less). Here’s a lit of 18. I bet you can add two to the list to make it an even 20. At this point, some aren’t…