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BCG Reports Technology as a Catalyst for Change in Primary and Secondary Education

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by Sarah Cargill August 3, 2011

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) released “Unleashing the Potential of Technology in Education,” a report articulating how technology can serve as a catalyst for change in primary and secondary education, today. More »

Curators and Creators

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by Bryan Setser April 1, 2011

The North Carolina joint meeting of the Jobs and E-Learning comissions took place yesterday. Mark Milliron, Deputy Director of Post Secondary Improvement at the Gates Foundation and Tom Vander Ark discuss the future of open education resources “creation and curation”. More »

Why Edupreneurs Should Blog

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by Tom Vander Ark March 28, 2011

Mark Suster (Both Sides of the Table) wrote a great blog on why entrepreneurs should blog. Here are the summarized points and I applied it to education. More »

Teacher spotlight: Mr. E

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by edReformer Staff January 5, 2011

Ted Edinger, an elmentary school art teacher, posts at Art with Mr. E and has a fantastic list of online art resources. This public school teacher is in the vanguard of the digital learning revolution. More »

Rethinking Time in Online Learning

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by Andrew Miller December 21, 2010

In online learning, we often tout how one of its best attributes is flexibility. We talk about how online learning will allow students to learn at their own pace, and how we will meet them where they are. A case of this was talked about recently on CNN, an echo of the other report in [...]

Colorado Families Praise Digital Learning Moves

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by edReformer Staff December 3, 2010

Colorado families gave high praise to digital learning policy recommendations that should push politicians to open up to choice in public education. More »

Open High School of Utah Mentioned by Arne Duncan

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by edReformer Staff November 17, 2010

Taking a second look through the video of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s SETDA keynote, we picked up that he mentioned Open High School of Utah. More »

Drafting Online Laws at the OK Corral

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by edReformer Staff October 18, 2010

Legislators in Oklahoma are cobbling together language for a new bill on virtual schooling. They seem to be leaving out statewide virtual charter opportunities, and it looks like the bulk of the bill is meant to keep control, funding, and power in the hands of districts, keeping parents from seeking out great virtual education for their students from anywhere other than where they are physically located. More »

A Fight Without a Face?

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by Education Equality Project October 18, 2010

Michael Lomax on Michelle Rhee; reactions to the “manifesto”; supporting teachers; Google Ed apps have ten million users; and what would happen if education reform didn’t have the battles and the faces that create those battles? More inside More »

World Ed No Longer a Trend but a Reality

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by edReformer Staff October 5, 2010

According to a New York Times storyline: “For decades the United States attracted more than a quarter of all foreign students in college or graduate education. Recently that has begun to change.” More »

Pershing Square Donates $25 Mil to Zuck Match Grant

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by edReformer Staff September 28, 2010

A Barbara Martinez report on the Zuckerberg-Booker Alliance, with news that Pershing Square has donated US$25 million to the challenge grant started by Mark Zuckerberg’s Startup: Education grant to Newark Public Schools. More »

Tenure, Impatience and Real Reform

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by Education Equality Project September 28, 2010

Joel Klein answers questions about tenure, noting layoffs are coming to NYC schools; Done Waiting launches in a bipartisan effort to focus on reform issues; looking at performance of individual schools; Education Nation, was it worth it? More »

$60 Million to Go, and Newark is Counting

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by Education Equality Project September 27, 2010

Facebook and Cory Booker; Joel Klein chats with the ladies on The View; what will happen to education reform if Republicans dominate the House or Senate; TIF grants announced More »

Live Chat: Michael Horn, Disrupting Class

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by edReformer Staff September 22, 2010

Michael Horn, co-author of “Disrupting Class” and Executive Director for Education and the Innosight Institute, has agreed to do a live chat with me and Andrew Barras on Wednesday, September 29. Right now the time is looking like 12Noon EST. Stay tuned for more details and links for the chat. More »

Sealing the Talent Gap

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by Education Equality Project September 20, 2010

Waiting for Superman kudos prior to national launch; Joel Klein on NYC’s efforts to close the achievement gap; McKinsey on how to recruit teachers; Oprah getting into education; Arne Duncan gives boost to digital learning; More »

Utah Champion Skater is an Online Student

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by edReformer Staff September 20, 2010

A Open High School of Utah teenager has placed third at the 2010 Gatorade Free Flow Tour Finals. Congrats. More »

Oprah Offers New Twist on Audience Prizes

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by edReformer Staff September 20, 2010

Oprah decides to give Aspire Public Schools US$1 million. What other big surprises should we expect this week, as she dedicates her show to education reform issues? More »

If You Can Read This, Thank a Teacher

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by Education Equality Project September 17, 2010

John Legend and Waiting for Superman; cash for teachers in Charlotte; Goldman Sachs gives US$20 million to Geoffrey Canada; technology helps, so we should use it. And more. Much, much more… More »

5 Lessons from the Nation’s Best Online Teacher

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by edReformer Staff September 15, 2010

Educators who teach in an online setting should foster strong relationships with their students’ parents and should offer plenty of positive feedback, says the nation’s first-ever K-12 Online Teacher of the Year. Teacher Teresa Dove of the Florida Virtual School (FLVS) last week was chosen as the first winner of this new award, which not only recognizes excellent teaching but also the prevalence, and importance, of online learning across the country. More »

Sugata Mitra: The Child-Driven Education (Video)

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by edReformer Staff September 7, 2010

Sugata Mitra shows what happens when you enable students to use the web to craft their own education. More »

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TASC Reports After-School Programs Equalize Tech Access For Students

tvanderark: SLC launches Innovations High School; very cool model,