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Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy.

I don't know all the places this could be used, but the graph in this article contains a STUNNING amount of information. I think the math is obvious, but I envision some phenomenal social science lessons, technology insights, the evolution of science, the implied connections to the ability of societies to spread information, the differences in cost of the various innovations and why that matters .... Hope you find something cool.

Excellent post that argues schools have responsibility to share their innovations with wider world. 

A personalized newspaper built from articles, blog posts, videos and photos selected by Jason Ramsden. Really good site to review on a regular basis.

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Developing Innovative Solutions to Our Nation's Most Pressing Education Problems.

A collection of truly insightful musings on assessment, whether you teach math or something else.

Chris, I definitely think this process for assessment could be utilized in other disciplines quite easily. The idea of student ownership is a huge factor for motivating students. The parent involvement seems to be a positive aspect, too. Thank you so much for keeping us all aware of innovative practices happening in education. Karen Anderson

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This section includes resources to help you facilitate the Challenge and provides a variety of enriching tools to integrate into your classroom instruction. Please take a look at the lesson plans, videos, reading passages, e-books, and more.

McLeod captures some of the important ideas that represent a counter argument to the NYT articles on technology and the future of schools.

Do we care enough about allowing time for teachers to collaborate in schools? Granted the emphasis is on teaching students. I get that, but what about the need for teachers to share, exchange, grow in their work, etc. That is harder to accomplish in isolation.

This goes back to the discussion of creating PLNs and PLNCs. Richard Byrne gave a good presentation on this a while back (http://www.slideshare.net/rbyrnetech/constructing-a-pln-3465767). Robert Jacobs' blog - Education Innovation - has been writing on this topic for years. I still refer back to this 2009 article from time to time. http://educationinnovation.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/07/welcome-to-the-revolution-the-professional-networked-learning-collaborative.html