The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Join us Thursday, February 24th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Michael Horn and Heather Staker from the Innosight Institute as they discuss their case study on the North Carolina School Connectivity Initiative, a public-private approach to bringing Internet access to K-12 public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Judging from the emails, calls and tweets I’ve received in the last week, there are few early education studies with more hated results than the multi-year study from Vanderbilt University researchers, which tracks outcomes for children who attended Tennessee’s voluntary pre-K program more than a decade ago.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

School closures in all 50 states have sent educators and parents alike scrambling to find online learning resources to keep kids busy and productive at home. In 2002, federal education law began requiring schools to spend federal dollars on research-based products only. Video: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Board of Education ruling in 1954 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, U.S. Case Study — The Collaborative: What We Learned From Bringing Educators Together to Reimagine School. She enjoys educating families about their school choice options and getting to know Valor families.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

So it may have been fate that she landed a job in the low-income, heavily immigrant California Central Valley community of Lindsay in 2009. EdSurge: What motivates you as an educator? Lindsay Unified School District Case Study. How does the program fit into the goals of Lindsay’s performance-based system?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2012

She is the author of the bestselling education book, Your Child''s Strengths (Viking 2008; Penguin, 2009), Stories of Excellence: Case Studies of Exemplary Teaching and Learning with Technology. NAIS, 2008) and the Differentiated Instruction Book of Lists (Jossey-Bass, 2011).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2014

Education these days is falling into a data gap. In a recent case study of two of Envision’s three schools by Stanford University, students demonstrated college persistence far above the norm. Of those, 66% made it to their second year. Tracking outcomes is more complex than reporting test scores.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Writer Mary Axelson’s reporting was engrossing, and her case studies struck a chord with readers: While the original story ran across four pages, an unusually-above average number of you read it all the way to the end. The next year, they flipped that model by buying online social studies books with some hardcopy backups.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Trump University and the History of the Future of For-Profit Higher Education. If nothing else, it seemed as though for-profit higher ed was poised to rebrand itself, embracing “coding bootcamps” as the new vocational education and career training. For-Profit Higher Education and the Presidential Campaign.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

While the state’s Department of Education cycled through commissioners (six in six years) superintendents struggled to figure out the law, largely on their own. Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education. Imported from Alaska. The Gates Foundation is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.).

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 5, 2015

This article is part of the Teaching With Games case study series at Institute of Play, produced in partnership with the Joan Ganz Cooney Center. For more case studies and related resources, visit Playmakers. How does this program change teaching practice? What does the change look like?

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Fractus Learning

MAY 11, 2015

As teaching candidates progress through teacher education programs, they should be exploring , evaluating , and applying methods and tools for effective instruction in the dynamic learning environments that exist in today’s K-12 schools. These blended and online field experiences are essential for today’s future educators.

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MindShift

JUNE 10, 2019

It’s a lot of work,” said Courtney Vahle, a graduate student in math education and athletic director for a Flagway league in Alton, Illinois. In a 2009 case study in Chicago , the high school and college students who served as Flagway coaches also reported having increased flexibility with numbers as a result of the game.

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The Thinking Stick

JUNE 15, 2016

It’s here that I find time to finally sit and reflect on this year’s journey into amazing new educational adventures with more on the way. Let’s see, you made a transition from a PC to Mac operating system, you are learning and are continuing to learn the power of Google Apps for Education. Just the waves, nature and prana.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Barbara Means, an educational psychologist at SRI International, a California-based research institute, says that while there is no hard data on the number of these schools, a reasonable estimate would be somewhere between 250 and 500. Sharon Lynch, a science education professor at George Washington University in Washington D.C.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Global Collaboration Week is a series of free online education events taking place during the week of September 23 - 27, 2019. During this week (and beyond), experienced global educators and other professionals will host connective projects and events and invite public participation. A current listing of events you can join is below.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

President Barack Obama delivers a speech at Macomb County Community College July 14, 2009 in Warren, Michigan. Within a decade, he said on that day in 2009, community colleges like Macomb would collectively boost their number of graduates by five million. A decade later, progress has been slow. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images.

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