MEDU 604

"Block Scheduling: Is this Right for America's Public Schools? "

"The goal of the Anytime Anywhere Learning Foundation (AALF) is to ensure that all children have access to unlimited opportunities to learn anytime and anywhere and that they have the tools that make this possible. "

Since the mid-1990s the Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) have appeared with the aim of supporting learning and teaching activities across the Internet.

"The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is engaged in a proof of concept for a virtual learning magnet (VLM) for space science and mathematics with support from space agency NASA. "

"he author asks and answers these questions: Why use ability grouping? How does ability grouping affect student achievement? What should schools and teachers do about ability grouping? "

"Ability grouping, also known as tracking, is the practice of grouping children together according to their talents in the classroom."

"Instead of simply moving kids from one grade to the next as they get older, schools are grouping students by ability. "

This school is a partnership between the school district of Philadelphia and Franklin institute where students learn in an alternate class on Wednesdays. They either elect mini courses at Franklin Institute or they participate in Individualized Learning Program internships.

This is a online high school based in Washington with flexibility in schedule, experiences that are designed for the individual student by an adult learning coach, and learning that takes place at home and in the community using resources like Skype.

PA Virtual is an award-winning, innovative, virtual public school that provides K-12 home-based public education throughout Pennsylvania.

OLYMPIA - There are no letter grades, no departments and no majors.

The school offers high school juniors, many from elite private institutions in the Northeast, a semester to immerse themselves in nature.

An important series of TEDx talks from TEDxYourthBFS. Timely topics around educational reform.

Innovative Nursing Education Technologies ( iNet) at the Duke School of Nursing has been using Diggo since 2009 to create a space for nurse educators to share Web sites and digital resources related to nursing education and technology.

"The Council of the Great City Schools' parent roadmaps in English language arts/literacy and in mathematics provide guidance to parents about what their children will be learning and how they can support that learning in grades K-8. These parent roadmaps for each grade level also provide three-year snapshots showing how selected standards progress from year to year so that students will be college and career ready upon their graduation from high school"

discover 42 new online historical exhibitions telling the stories behind major events of the last century, including Apartheid, D-Day and the Holocaust. The stories have been put together by 17 partners including museums and cultural foundations who have drawn on their archives of letters, manuscripts, first-hand video testimonials and much more. Much of the material is very moving-and some is on the Internet for the first time.

This informative infographic shows some of the statistics revolving around online learning, but also details some of the advantages and disadvantages of each.

"This will be a collection of different strategies and models of note taking strategies to aid my students in writing effective, personalized notes. My goal is to get them to stop copying and start thinking!"

Thursday night's debate will be different, because it matters in a way that previous matchups have not.

Thursday night's debate will be different, because it matters in a way that previous matchups have not.

Thursday night's debate will be different, because it matters in a way that previous matchups have not.

The vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix were designed as a prevention for young women who have not yet been exposed to HPV.