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Promoting Quality Online Learning
Fordham is launching a series of working papers on digital learning. Rick Hess makes an important contribution with the first paper focused on quality
How to shift kid's media time to learning?
Three strategies to shift a portion of the time young people spend on entertainment/media to productive learning activities
It's Not a Matter of Time
Chris Sturgis highlights two papers from iNACOL and questions how disruptive innovation theories apply to goods and services where there is a market failure, i.e. education.
Do the Classroom Flip: Humanizing School Through Technology
Chris Sturgis discusses many of the advancements in regards to technology in the classroom.
Parents Promote Disruptive Innovation
Michael Horn spoke to the National Coalition Public School Options--an extraordinary network of parents that advocate for educational options for families particularly online learning.
Good Work: Republican or Democrat?
Justice and mercy: it is never easy to find the right balance at school, at work, in politics, or at home. Solutions are found in broadly sustained conversations about creating forward-focused environments of opportunity that value performance but provide and support multiple paths to achievement.
5 Market Drivers & 5 Market Shapers
Private enterprise will play a critical role in producing and scaling learning innovations that will help boost US achievement levels and reach the next billion young people worldwide. Here's 5 drivers and 5 shaping forces.
KIPP Blend Promising
KIPP Empower Academy in Los Angeles presented some amazing results from their blended learning pilot at the New School Summit.
Motivational Profiles
Mining the combined data from home and school will yield rich and powerful motivational profiles that will power smart recommendation engines--and that's when we'll see the real power of customized learning.
County Superintendents Consider Innovation
ASA County Superintendents meeting in Washington DC was sponsored by the Pearson Foundation. They considered learning tech and school improvement today.