Posts tagged with "united-states"
Ensuring the Bottom Line is Higher Achievement |
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by Carlos Contreras December 10, 2010 The bottom line is that we need to expose to students to a level of math and science that allows them to make an informed decision about the future of their own schooling. More » |
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Video: Aneesh Chopra at Ed Sector: “We Need Data” |
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by Education Sector December 9, 2010 U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra noted at an Ed Sector event Tuesday that a continued emphasis on improving education is a key component of President Obama’s innovation strategy, and data has a crucial role in this. He stressed the importance of building out the nation’s digital infrastructure. “We can’t have a conversation about the value of data if you can’t produce the data in the first place.” More » |
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Governor Bob Wise Responds to PISA Scores |
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by Daily News December 7, 2010 Former Governor Bob Wise on PISA results: “In what has become the Olympics of academic performance, these international test results show that U.S. students’ performance is improving, but we are still a long way from being an educational Olympic-medal winner.” More » |
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Culturally Responsive Online Teaching: A Call to Action |
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by Andrew Miller December 2, 2010 All students have cultural strengths and resiliencies; we need to ensure we are using all these strengths, including the culture of online learning. More » |
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Boldly Innovate or Be Badly Irrelevant |
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by Tom Vander Ark November 17, 2010 Here is a summary of a presentation given by former West Virginia Governor Bob Wise at the Virtual Schools Symposium in Glendale, Arizona. More » |
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The Bee Eater |
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by Education Equality Project October 27, 2010 A Michelle Rhee biography coming out in January; the Bill Gates interview about teachers; helping low income families get the education they want; Cory Booker urging citizen collaboration to fix education; supporting educators More » |
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Newark Struggles in Graduation and College Achievement |
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by edReformer Staff October 22, 2010 According to outgoing Newark Superintendent Clifford Janey, “Only slightly more than half (52 percent) of our students graduate high school within four years, based on the new, more accurate graduation rate adopted by National Governors Association.” See a report inside that details statistics about Newark’s school and student achievement. More » |
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Advancing a Global Learning Agenda |
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by edReformer Staff October 21, 2010 Arne Duncan is saying that educational advances in other countries do not necessarily equate to an American loss at home, or abroad. Rather, advances and innovations are win-win solutions for an entire global architecture. The Digital Learning Council has a sense of this kind of change coming, and is working hard to help states advance a roadmap to get there. More » |
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Next Gen Learning Wave 2 Coming in Q1 |
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by edReformer Staff October 21, 2010 The folks at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have spent a good solid few months rolling out the Next Generation Learning Challenge grants application process. They are focusing on Wave 2 now, according to an email I got this morning. The second wave will focus on getting people ready for college. More » |
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It Takes a Digital Media Village |
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by Daily News August 30, 2010 Older adults have doubled their presence and interaction on social media sites in the past year, but will they miss the bus when it comes to forming influence channels on the web? More » |
Elevating Engagement |
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by Bryan Setser August 19, 2010 We need to turn learners into sharers, just like they are in the normal virtual world they access everyday when not in school, writes Bryan Setser, Executive Director of the North Carolina Virtual Public School. More » |
Why Does Ed Reform in MD Focus on Buildings? |
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by edReformer Staff August 17, 2010 Stories about education reform in Maryland always seem to deal with buildings. Why is that? Where are the discussions about education technology and true innovation? More » |
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Indiana Chooses Pearson for Common Core Alignment |
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by Daily News August 16, 2010 Indiana’s Department of Education (IDOE) announced the Evaluation Systems group of Pearson as its partner in developing new teacher standards as the state shifts to a content-focused approach to teacher licensure. IDOE and Pearson will establish comprehensive, rigorous teacher standards, making Indiana the first state in the nation to align these with the Common Core State Standards. More » |
edReformer Travels to Salt Lake City |
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by edReformer Staff August 16, 2010 edReformer is traveling next week to Salt Lake City to listen in on the testimony of Susan Patrick, President, iNACOL in front of the state Senate. We will also be meeting with state leaders in education and entrepreneurs invested in virtual education and innovative strategies that bring equity to students. More » |
What Other Kids Do |
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by edReformer Staff August 13, 2010 Something to think about at edReformer. We have online in most homes in America. We have a lot. What if we geared online education to be more about connecting to the world, rather than just learning your A,B,C’s? More » |
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If Ed Engaged, We Wouldn’t Worry about Online |
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by edReformer Staff August 13, 2010 The answer may be that we just don’t know. I present a slice out of January 2010′s Sloan Consortium study of online learning in America and make some points about online learning and how it fits into traditional ideas of school. More » |
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Ted Mitchell: i3 Sets Up “Political” Route to Reform |
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by edReformer Staff August 13, 2010 NSVF founder and CEO Ted Mitchell points out that i3 is a political choice that will develop a healthy appreciation for innovation in a skeptical and a sometimes unknowing public. We’re right behind him on that one. More » |
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Your Party Allegiances are Showing |
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by Daily News August 13, 2010 Oh, dear. Someone’s numbers as they are tied to political allegiances are showing. We read about this blog post on Washington Examiner, which says that some of the millions of dollars in the edujobs bills is going to jobs that are not under threat of being lost. More » |
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Pushing a Longer School Day to Solve the Lunch Crisis |
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by Katherine Mangu-Ward August 12, 2010 Education reform is about more than just technology and curriculum. Blogger Katherine Mangu-Ward at Reason.com revisits the idea of school lunch and longer school hours after doing a video debate about it. More » |
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