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The Open Social World to Come
Most learning five years from now will be open and social. Here's a list of 10 shifts from closed and antisocial to open and social.
K12 Announces Acquisition of American Ed Corp
K12 has purchased American Education Corporation.
Online Partnerships for Elementary Success
Joyce Voelker was skeptical of an online elementary school, but after one year of teaching online is a wholehearted advocate after seeing the benefit to a wide span of families. “For every student, there is a different reason—behavior issues, health conditions, or students that are just a little different—but they come alive in this program and it is a godsend for these families.”
Maximizing Potential of All Students
Are KIPP Schools really "drill and kill" factories that drive students to exhaustion. Not really, despite contentions that this is what makes some of them so successful. Here is a column from Jay Matthews, via an email from Whitney Tilson, philanthropist and ed reformer.
Superman Kids Land on White House Sofa
Gwen Samuels writes about her involvement in education reform; Deborah Gist in The Atlantic; smart thinking on reform and teacher quality; Next Generation Learning Challenge
Reforming Teacher Education
After his groundbreaking report, Art Levine took over the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation and aimed it squarely reinventing teacher preparation
Hewlett's Quest for Deeper Learning
Hewlett Foundation wants every student to have the opportunity to think critically, communicate effectively, and work collaboratively they way the do in SF's Envision Schools
Performance Contracting: Lessons from Chartering
Performance contracting, with lessons from charter school authorizing, should be used by states to fill gaps in service delivery.
Five Pieces of Advice for Newark Plan
Time education columnist Andy Rotherham, who also blogs at Eduwonk, gives Facebook CEO a pep talk of sorts on what to do with that US$100 million matching grant to Newark.
Students Given Undivided Attention in Web 2.0
Teachers don't have to fight for a student's undivided attention in Web 2.0 anymore, when they are using Edmodo, a social learning network made specifically for the education sector.