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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
5 Lessons from the Nation's Best Online Teacher
Educators who teach in an online setting should foster strong relationships with their students’ parents and should offer plenty of positive feedback, says the nation’s first-ever K-12 Online Teacher of the Year. Teacher Teresa Dove of the Florida Virtual School (FLVS) last week was chosen as the first winner of this new award, which not only recognizes excellent teaching but also the prevalence, and importance, of online learning across the country.
Personalize and Deliver
As a prelude to the Innovate to Educate Symposium in Boston on August 4-6, 2010, we run another in a series of interviews with personalized learning experts. Here we ask Howard Gardner to tell us about his vision for personalized learning in an age of education reform. Howard Gardner is the Hobbs Professor for Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Ten Global Trends in ICT and Education
Robert Hawkins, Senior Education Specialist at the World Bank, spoke at the MIT LINC Conference about the 10 global trends in ICT and Education. It's a must see for teachers, edupreneurs, administration and thinkers.
By Teachers, For Teachers
Educators 4 Excellence rallies teachers to help create a more fair and equitable education system for our children. We meet guest bloggers Sydney Morris and Evan Stone, founders of Educators 4 Excellence.
We Need New Routes to Teacher Certification
Alternative teacher certification is no longer a badly maligned idea. New York State and other areas are pushing ahead to bring different skills into our nation's public schools.
The New Learning Landscape
No more lowest common denominator bargaining. That world no longer exists and it's time to learn.
Bad Proxies for Good Teachers
Read Rotherham’s Atlantic article on Teach For America (TFA) and what it takes to be a good teacher. It’s a great summary of what the field, TFA in particular, has learned recently about the attributes of good teachers. However, it’s frustrating that we remain so unsophisticated about the predictive…
Are Edupreneurs Born or Developed?
Fred Wilson’s Friday post explores whether entrepreneurs are born with requisite attributes or whether at least some of can be developed: I also believe that there are “unique and defining characteristics of entrepreneurs.” Here are some of the ones I observe most frequently: 1) A stubborn…
The Edu-Entrepreneurs bargain
The sun set at 4:22pm at latitude 47.3. It will set about a minute later tomorrow. The days are finally getting longer again. We also turned the corner on the Great Recession; at least the leading indicators look that way. That is little reassurance to the 20% of the…