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Q&A: Nancy Hoffman On Vocational Education
In her book, Hoffman outlines the ways that vocational education and training (VET), which couples hands-on work experience and traditional learning to develop 21st century skills, can better prepare students for higher education and life. In the Q&A below, Hoffman discusses the outlook of VET programs around the world, the differences in the US and the challenges Americans face in producing comparable programs for students.
Personalized Learning
10 Frames for Education: A Case for Options
The cacophony that is U.S. public education is a function of overlapping frames—the variety of aims and perspectives from which stakeholders approach the ‘system.’ Following is a list of ten dominant frames: 1. Workforce development: the 21st century skills folks are primarily concerned with preparing a larger percentage of students…
EdTech
Review: Schooling in the Workplace
A review of Nancy Hoffman's new book, School in the Workplace, How Six of the World's Best Vocational Education Systems Prepare Young People for Jobs and Life. Its blended learning workforce style.
Personalized Learning
How Technology Can Improve Online Learning—and Learning in General
As president of a nonprofit, online university I am often asked about the quality of online learning. The answer is that the quality of education is largely independent of the mode of delivery. Other variables are far more important. There is high-quality online learning, and there is high-quality classroom learning, just as there is low-quality learning in both settings.
EdTech
Review: Change.edu
Not too much sparks the fury of the education status quo today than the privatization of education and specifically for profit colleges. Forgotten is the original mission of higher education from its origins at the start of our country: to deliver a practical, useful education. Would our founding fathers be embarrassed at the frivolities of the social programs and free form curriculum offered at many colleges and universities without any thought or reason to the useless degrees and unimaginable college debt accumulated to obtain those degrees?
EdTech
Report: Innovations at Scale
Jobs for the Future (JFF) published "Innovations at Scale: How Virginia Community Colleges Are Collaborating to Improve Developmental Education and Increase Student Success," a report by Rose Asera targeting ways that we can meet college completion goals, this month.
EdTech
Report: From Remediation to Acceleration
Jobs for the Future released "From Remediation to Acceleration: Early Lessons from Two Philadelphia Back on Track Schools," a report that discusses how to bring students in drop-out recovery programs up to speed and ready for college, this October.
Leadership
Staff Picks: Ed Reform, Good Work, and Getting Smart
This week, Tom picks the Foundation for Excellence in Education's Roadmap for Reform, the Nation's Digital Learning Report Card and the 10 Elements of High Quality Digital Learning. Karen picks Tom's Good Work Sunday series on Getting Smart, Caroline picks Tom's new book Getting Smart, and Sarah picks the "I'm Getting Smart" series on Facebook and Twitter.
EdTech
Houston Schools Increase Proficiency With Math Games
MIND Research Institute, a non-profit neuroscience and education researcher, announced this week that eight Houston-area schools using MIND's visual math game ST Math® achieved substantial increases in math proficiency this last year.
Personalized Learning
Good Assessment Key to Strong Accountability
Some #EdReform, #EdEquality, and #EdPolicy colleagues thought my blog Assessment Will Advance When it Moves Into the Background suggested that I didn’t support the idea of summative assessments and their associated use in school accountability systems. This section may have begged the question: We’ll need to invent our way out of…