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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2001: $450,000,000. FY 1998: $425,000,000.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

edWeb.net

Ray is a past president of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) and author of It’s Not Us Against Them: Creating the Schools We Need , published in 2009 by the International Center. From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner.

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Thursday - Ray McNulty on the Courage to Change Education

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Ray is a past president of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) and author of It’s Not Us Against Them — Creating the Schools We Need , published in 2009. From 2001-03, he served as Vermont''s education commissioner.

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Five Compelling Reasons For Teaching Spatial Reasoning To Young Children

MindShift

Research shows that spatial thinking is an important predictor of achievement in the STEM disciplines—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (Wai, Lubinski, & Benbow, 2009). Currently, many countries are concerned by the low numbers of post-secondary students, particularly female students, entering these disciplines.

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8 Ways to Help New Teachers Thrive (and Veteran Teachers Too!)

The CoolCatTeacher

Progress through the teacher pipeline: 1992–93 college graduates and elementary/ secondary school teaching as of 1997. 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24) 24) Jackson, C. K., & Bruegmann, E. Teaching students and teaching each other: The importance of peer learning for teachers. 25) Kraft, M. A., & Papay, J. 33) Bartell, C.

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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: Gaps in financial aid, funding contribute to growing number of Georgians with college loans and no college degree

The Hechinger Report

This has happened as Georgia officials – like those in many other states – are pushing to increase the number of young residents who have some kind of post-secondary education. In 2009, state appropriations made up 61 percent of the general funding for USG institutions, while tuition accounted for nearly a third of it. Fran Millar.

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Shifting From Pedagogy To Heutagogy In Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

The power to learn Heutagogy has come a long way since its initial inception over a bottle of wine and notes written on a napkin in a restaurant in 2000 (Hase, 2002, 2009; Hase and Kenyon, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010; Kenyon and Hase, 2010). Origins & Influences. Don’t most good ideas happen this way?