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The Real Lessons of PISA By Diane Ravitch on December 14, 2010 9:13 AM Dear Deborah, When the results of the latest international assessment-the Program for International Student Assessment, or P...
From CBS 60 Minutes [TV program], Sunday, January 1, 2012 -- you can view the segment at http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57348498/the-perfect-score-cheating-on-the-sat/ and also read the s...
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/12/the_year_s_worst_tech_trend_complexity_.html 011 Was a Terrible Year for Tech All our devices got more complicated. And they won't get si...
10 education predictions for 2012 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/10-education-predictions-for-2012/2011/12/29/gIQAB2PbPP_blog.html By Valerie Strauss This was written by La...
Teach for America: Liberal mission helps conservative agenda http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/teach-for-america-liberal-mission-helps-conservative-agenda/2011/12/25/gIQApoVZHP...
http://larrycuban.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/accountability-in-action-cartoons/ Accountability in Action-Cartoons larrycuban.wordpress.com More than any other word, "accountability" has become the ke...
http://mediatapper.com/social-media-typewriters-and-fax-machines-lead-the-revolt-against-oppression/ Social media is transforming the world! This is especially true in the Middle East where platf...
Overhauling Computer Science Education http://thejournal.com/Articles/2011/12/05/Overhauling-Computer-Science-Education.aspx?Page=1 Students from elementary school through college are learnin...
I have recently been researching the use of Web 2.0 technologies and Social Networking as a tool for Assessment for Learning. Thanks to all who responded via Twitter especially @nick_chater @57maso...
http://www.scoop.it/t/into-the-driver-s-seat/p/856007214/information-literacy-digital-learning-environments-judy-salpeter Information Literacy | Digital Learning Environments| Judy Salpeter...
8:42am Dec 21 Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) Program Do you know a high school junior that is extremely intelligent and hard working? Has this student been re...
December 19, 2011 By Marc Parry Millions of learners have enjoyed the free lecture videos and other course materials published online through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's OpenCourseW...
Education's job in a networked world I can't presume to know education's main job in today's very different media environment, but I think Prof. Michael Wesch at Kansas State University is on to s...
Misunderstanding Race and the Digital Divide by Joseph Miller Guest Contributor on December 16, 2011 "One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those w...
Technology Cannot Disrupt Education From The Top Down Patrick Gibbon Education http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/18/education-technology-disrupt/ Editor's note: Guest contributor Patrick Gibbo...
Ravitch: What Scrooge might think of modern school reform By Valerie Strauss This was written by education historian Diane Ravitch for her Bridging Differences blog, which she co-authors with Debor...
Alice E. Marwick Microsoft Corporation - Microsoft Research New England; Harvard University - Berkman Center for Internet & Society danah boyd Microsoft Research; New York University (NYU) - Dep...
Last week, the Center on Education Policy released its 10th annual report on state high school testing policies. State High School Tests: Changes in State Policies and the Impact of the College and...
Shodor Announces XSEDE Project BY Hillary Stoker, Staff A partnership of 17 institutions, including Shodor, has committed to developing the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (X...
