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Personalized Learning
Funding Our Students Increases Efficiency
After two days of jury duty and experiencing the justice system, it is evident that the justice system and the education system are similar in the fact that they are optimized around bureaucrats rather than customers. Funding needs to follow the students, not school districts to make our education system more efficient.
Personalized Learning
Rhee-form or Reinvention?
The Rhee-form agenda is important—better evaluation, more charters, less bureaucracy—but it focuses on cleaning up a system that can’t do what we need it to do. We need schools that work better for students and teachers—schools that engage students and extend and accelerate learning.
Ed Policy
What School Turnaround Really Takes
Turnaround for Children supports a comprehensive effort school improvement efforts
EdTech
Feature School: Northwest Passage
We need to pursue a system of public education that endorses schools like Northwest Passage and that embraces them as part the norm, rather than perpetuate a system that holds them at arm’s length.
EdTech
Blended learning helps reduce budgets
Ed Week examines specific cost cutting strategies and highlights Rocketship whose blended learning model keeps costs low.
Personalized Learning
Reading List
two dozen classic books on leading, learning, teaching, race, poverty, and calling
EdTech
Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator
Lisa Nielsen is a New York-based educator. Her analysis of Walter McKenzie's "A Practical Action Plan for Transforming Education" first appeared in her blog, The Innovative Educator.
Personalized Learning
Combining Standards & Interests for Student Success
Right in front of us is the opportunity to build personal digital learning pathways that customize learning by level, interest, and motivational profile.
Personalized Learning
Time for Education Innovation
The Big Shifts pushing education innovation are the Technology Shift, the Global Shift, and the Learning Shift