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New Visions Builds On New School Success With Innovation Agenda
New Visions for Public Schools has probably been the most effective intermediary of the last decade. By launching 135 new secondary schools and helped to develop other intermediaries that developed hundreds more, they dramatically improved the quality of high school options in New York City. Thousands of students each year graduate from high school and go to college because New Visions created high schools.
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Investing in Education Innovation
Ask yourself, would the next Rocketship Education or Goalbook grow in your backyard? If not, what would it take? One thing is for sure: education innovation does not happen by accident.
EdTech
We Need More Launching Pad Politics
This country is stuck in disingenuous debate fueled by superpac superficiality. There are great examples of launching pads around the country. It would be great if, rather than mudslinging, we saw more launch pad politics.
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Good Schools for the World’s Poor
Steady progress has been made toward universal access to primary education–a 2015 Global Development Goal. But in the developing world the quality of government schools in urban slums are terribly bad. Parents desperately seek alternatives but few solutions. In some South African townships parents pay twice as much in…
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Why Aren’t There Any Next Gen Learning Platforms?
The education sector is in the early stages of transitioning from learning management systems (LMS) to learning platform ecosystems. In fact, a lot of U.S. schools will skip the LMS phase and go straight from print to platform.
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How Philanthropy Can Improve & Accelerate the Shift to Digital Learning
There are a dozen opportunities for foundations to focus, improve and accelerate the shift to digital learning including planning support for school, district, network, and states; supporting pilots programs and new schools; and sponsoring research, advocacy, and learning opportunities.
EdTech
Informal Learning for a Better World
nformal learning should not be seen as a threat to the formal education system, but as a challenge, model, and important counterpart. With the rise of the open content movement, some of the world’s best educational content — from TED talks to MIT’s OpenCourseWare — is now freely available online.
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Deficits Push New Double Bottom Line: More for Less
In November 2010, in his most important speech, Arne Duncan called for more productivity during this ‘new normal’ period of lower revenue. We just concluded our third ‘new normal’ school year and there’s no end in sight. This morning, USA Today reported that State and local spending is…
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NGLC Awards Innovative School Networks & Colleges
Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) announced its second round of grants to innovative high school and college programs today. The $4.5 million in grants will be shared by eight high school recipients, mostly charter networks, and four colleges. The blended learning models will yield strong college attendance and completion rates among low income students.
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10 Ways K-12 Is Becoming More Like Cisco Academy
With more than 1M enrolled students and about 40,000 assessments weekly, Cisco Networking Academy is the biggest classroom in the world. In 10 ways US K-12 education is becoming more like NetAcademy: relevant, blended, competency-based, with games, sims, and online assessments.