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Dear Arne
Duncan should encourage states to leave room for assessment innovation, push blended learning, and encourage public-private partnerships
Online Learning Will Change Things
Michael Horn describes the changes to education that come from using an online learning or blended model.
A Little State's Big Budget Move
A review of the Rhode Island budget decision that should have people feeling optimistic about education reform.
In Data, Making Things Equal
There’s more than one reason why the sales cycle in school districts takes 18 months or so. One of the reasons is controlling for outcomes. Nobody wants to pay money for something that is unproven — like online learning — even though it’s clearly changed the lives of millions of…
CapEx Thinking
Private capital plays an important role in public education, because most superintendents can't raise money to invest in productivity improvement.
Dan McGuire, Teacher, Minneapolis Public Schools
The solution is to expand the market, include more than just public education in the market of the 'service provider.' For-profit businesses need much the same kind of 'training' and support as teachers need, writes Dan McGuire, teacher.
Future Economy, Knowledge Flow
Cloud computing has spawned a new knowledge flow economy that works in asymmetrical networks. The education and business future is in distribution on the edge, not in maintaining assets and control.
Socioeconomic Impact of Charters in Texas
This article looks at the impact that charter schools have on the development of the economy and the labor force that feeds it.
VC Funding of Ed Set to Boom
VC Investments blogger Rafael Corrales believes VC dollars into education are set to soar, but let's remember there's a bureaucracy set up here.
Charter Schools Still Getting Fewer Dollars
In certain "focus" school districts, public schools receive about $3,727 more per student than charter schools.