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Randolph Hollingsworth

Cracking the Credit Hour, report by Amy Laitinen, New America Foundation - 5 views

higheredwatch.newamerica.net/...ng_the_Credit_Hour_Sept5_0.pdf

educational reform carnegie unit Tuning USA Degree Qualifications Profile competency-based learning

shared by Randolph Hollingsworth on 10 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 10 Sep 12
     
    includes history of Carnegie Unit - highlights the new competency-based learning pilots in measuring levels of acquired learning (instead of seat/clock time), Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP) and the Tuning USA initiative
Tony Baldasaro

Education Week: N.H. Seeking to Reinvigorate High Schools - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...05highschool.h28.html

ELO NH education

shared by Tony Baldasaro on 10 Sep 09 - Cached
  • One New Hampshire high school student fell in love with accounting while working at a local business. Another attended the recent Democratic National Convention as a campaign volunteer. And a third, whose relative worked in the state immigration office, researched challenges facing newcomers to the state.
  • One New Hampshire high school student fell in love with accounting while working at a local business. Another attended the recent Democratic National Convention as a campaign volunteer. And a third, whose relative worked in the state immigration office, researched challenges facing newcomers to the state.
  • One New Hampshire high school student fell in love with accounting while working at a local business. Another attended the recent Democratic National Convention as a campaign volunteer. And a third, whose relative worked in the state immigration office, researched challenges facing newcomers to the state.
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  • One New Hampshire high school student fell in love with accounting while working at a local business. Another attended the recent Democratic National Convention as a campaign volunteer. And a third, whose relative worked in the state immigration office, researched challenges facing newcomers to the state.
  • To personalize learning for students
  • To personalize learning for students
  • To personalize learning for students
  • To personalize learning for students
  • To personalize learning for students
  • it doesn’t always have to be delivered in the traditional Carnegie [unit] mode of delivery," sai
  • The approach, which goes into effect this school year, moves away from the traditional Carnegie-unit system based on seat time.
  • Tony Baldasaro on 10 Sep 09
     
    One New Hampshire high school student fell in love with accounting while working at a local business. Another attended the recent Democratic National Convention as a campaign volunteer. And a third, whose relative worked in the state immigration office, researched challenges facing newcomers to the state. All earned high school credit for their work outside school, an opportunity available under a burgeoning high school redesign effort in New Hampshire that sets its sights beyond simply stiffening course requirements and graduation standards.
Sharin Tebo

New Blog Series: Promising Policies for Personalized Learning - iNACOL - 15 views

www.inacol.org/...cies-for-personalized-learning

shared by Sharin Tebo on 10 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • How might policymakers remove barriers and support enabling conditions for optimizing learning for each student’s unique needs — both inside and outside of classroom walls?
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      Sharin Tebo on 10 Feb 16
       
      That is the KEY question, as teachers don't have control over systems' barriers and policies. 
  • Personalized learning is tailoring learning for each student’s strengths, needs and interests — including enabling student voice and choice in what, how, when and where they learn — to provide flexibility and supports to ensure mastery of the highest standards possible.
  • According to this RAND study, students attending schools using breakthrough, personalized learning models “made gains in mathematics and reading over the past two years that were significantly greater than a comparison group made up of similar students selected from comparable schools.”
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  • Redefine courses and Carnegie units into competencies.
  • Build educator capacity and professional judgement in calibration on assessing evidence on common performance tasks
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