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Ann Baum (Johnston)

iNACOL Releases 5 Policy Reforms for Online Learning | Getting Smart - 0 views

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  • Ann Baum (Johnston) on 27 Mar 12
     
    "The International Association for K-12 Online Learning's (iNACOL) Director of Policy, David Teeter, recently published "Online Learning: Top 5 Federal Policy Issues Brief," which takes a close look at reforms to improve student-centered, competency-based policies for online learning." iNACOL Releases 5 Policy Reforms for Online Learning http://t.co/YPHJl3Iw
karen sipe

What's Possible: Turning Around America's Lowest-Achieving Schools - ED.gov Blog - 0 views

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  • karen sipe on 05 Apr 11
     
    To help local education leaders with their own school reform efforts, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has produced a new series of onlin evideos highlighting successful school improvements from districts across the nation. The videos illustrate how several school districts have successfully turned around their low-performing schools using the four models endorsed by ED's $3.5 billion Title I School Improvement Grant program. This program makes funds available to states by formula, to help them target the bottom 5 percent of U.S. Schools--or approximately 5,000 chronic underperforming schools nationwide. Local school districts compete for the funds after identifying the schools they wan to overhaul and then determining which of four models is most appropriate: transformation, turnaround, restart, or school closure. Through interviews with school administrators, teachers, parents, and studetns, the videos aim to show how sometimes difficult changes in school leadership, personnel, curriculum, and culture can lead to dramatic improvemetns in student achievement.
Michelle Krill

Tech Futures | Scholastic.com - 0 views

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shared by Michelle Krill on 23 Sep 09 - No Cached
  • First, technology is changing the way students interact with information. It has revolutionized the way we obtain, gather, evaluate, and search for information, and schools that have not adapted to these changes find themselves disconnected from their students.
  • Secondly, many technology initiatives are specifically designed to increase a student’s access to technology. Therefore, a school district can achieve its goal without actually improving student learning. The problem is that access to technology should not be the goal; improving teaching and learning should be.
  • Consider how strange it would be to see a lesson that includes the statement “Students will use paper and a pen….”
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  • There was a time when information was only accessible at school from teachers, libraries, and textbooks. If a student didn’t learn the information before they left school, they had very limited access to these information resources. Yet now, the Internet has changed the rules: Information is available at any time to anyone with access.
  • School leaders need to decide what should be the focus of instruction: information retention, or information consumption.
  • Districts need to realize that one size does not fit all, and placing the same technology in each classroom in the name of equity is a recipe for disaster.
Aly Kenee

American Education in 2030 | Hoover Institution - 3 views

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shared by Aly Kenee on 03 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Donald Burkins on 03 Mar 11
     
    "In these essays, members of the Hoover Institution's Task Force on K-12 education, joined by several keen-eyed observers, blend prediction with prescription to paint a vivid picture of American primary and secondary education in 2030. What follows is necessarily speculative, and readers may judge portions to be wishful thinking or politically naïve. But none of it is fanciful-we're not writing fiction here-and all of it, in the authors' views, is desirable. That is to say, the changes outlined here would yield a more responsive, efficient, effective, nimble, and productive K-12 education system than we have today."
  • Aly Kenee on 07 Mar 11
     
    Various videos expressing opinions about where education will be in 2030.
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