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Killer App: MasteryConnect Reinvents the Report Card
On standards-based grading, MasteryConnect CEO Mick Hewitt has been asking, “How do we get parents to care about this?” Mick believes the answer lies in showing parents a visually appealing report card with access to details of what students are not understanding relative to the state or Common Core standards.
Smart List: Homework Help & Parent Organizing
Today we are recognizing 10 sources for homework help and 10 organizations informing and organizing parents.
PresenceLearning Provides Online Occupational and Speech Therapy
PresenceLearning, the leading provider of online speech and occupational therapy services for K-12 students, today announced the availability of its occupational and speech-language therapy services to parents and guardians of children with special needs.
Infographic: Tapping into Mobile Technology
The infographic highlights findings from the mobile learning report, Living & Learning with Mobile Devices, released today from Grunwald & Associates and the Learning First Alliance.
Vacation Education: Family Learning Adventures in DC
By: Jessica Oballo. We packed our bags and headed out for spring break! But what the kids didn't realize was that it was a learning vacation. Aren't those the best kinds of trips? When your kids are young, energetic, curious and little explorers, a trip to our nation's capitol is the perfect way to educate our kids without having them realize it!!
Student Warns “Doing Technology” Isn’t Enough
A guest blog this week at edweek.org gave a student the chance to tell us what he thinks is important about technology in the classroom. The perspective of the learner doesn't often get much air time. What this learner has to say deserves attention.
Get out the blender, kids
I think I have just glimpsed the future, or at least what could be the future, of public education. I’m talking about the effective use of today’s technology to enhance learning, or what insiders are calling ‘blended education.’ Michael Horn, a co-author of Disrupting Class, provided a definition: Blended learning is any time a student learns at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home and at least in part through online delivery with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace.
State of Black Connecticut Alliance Hosts Ceremony
The event will be held at the Hilton Stamford Hotel, One First Stamford Place, Stamford, CT, from 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm on December 16. Tickets are $125.00. There will be a VIP Public Policy Strategy Building Session 5:00pm - 6:30pm. It features Congressman Chaka Fattah as keynote speaker, and appearances by Michelle Rhee, RiShawn Biddle, and the CT Commission on Educational Achievement.
Chicago Parents Demand Ed Variety, More Charters
Parents in Chicago rally for more charters, more choice, and different selection processes for their kids.
What I Want to Be While I'm Growing Up
During the Virtual Schools Symposium, I met some parents who are working very hard to rally other parents and families to gain access to virtual education, something that is quite hard to do in districts that have worked hard to take that choice away from them. We coined the phrase, "What I Want to Be While I'm Growing Up," which we thought accurately described what learning online enables their kids to do.