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Tangible Research is a Business Education
Guest blogger Hawwa Mohammad, who works with the Newark Center for Collaborative Change, explains how universities are commercializing research by linking professorial ideas with real business. The point is, pairing research and learning with business is a good idea, because universities are the nexus for community involvement.
The Dropout Crisis
In this special feature, we interview Richard Lee Colvin, who guest edited “Fighting the Dropout Crisis” in the July-August edition of the Washington Monthly. He is a longtime journalist who heads the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, Teachers College, Columbia University, and is editor of The Hechinger Report. See links to this work inside.
Measuring Text Space
What impact have digital resources had on the choices librarians and districts make about reading materials available in public school libraries?
Don't Put Education Reform at Risk
Are education programs really a luxury that we can afford to lose? No. They are the means towards changing status quo politics, and the status quo is getting in the way.
About Schools, Tech, Poetry & Justice
LAUSD doing some of the right things to turnaround failing schools; selling edtech now; and Merwin's ode to mistakes
Another Open Letter to Commissioner Chester, Massachusetts
Michael Horn, Director of the Education division of Innosight Institute, writes and open letter to Commissioner Chester, after press reports indicate changes to virtual schools legislation in Massachusetts.
Hacking Tools, Please
Those quick and nimble angel investors and VC firms -- are they really that quick and nimble? Or is the new metaphor for investing in education a stone mason, pounding away at a slab of granite?
Online in Rhode Island
A quick interview with Deborah Gist, Rhode Island's Commissioner of Education about online learning and new budgeting strategies for the state.
School Finance Fix
School finance is convoluted and ineffective. The fix: 1) money should follow kids to best options, 2) low income kids should get more money, and 3) funding should be flexible and outcome oriented.
Here's the Missing Findings from CRPE CMO Study
CRPE issued a descriptive interim report on Charter Management Organizations just in time for the national charter conference. Read a cheerleaders version.