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[Guest Post] The Future of Learning is Now

Education Elements

I had the opportunity to meet Clayton Christensen, the Harvard Business School professor who coined the term “disruptive innovation,” at the Education Commission of the States’ annual conference where he gave a keynote address. Innosight Institute later changed its name to the Clayton Christensen Institute.).

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In Utah, personalizing learning by focusing on relationships

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The high school graduation rate in Utah’s Juab School District was 78 percent in 2009. Subscribe today!

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to. In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.) Peter Thiel.

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Will “school choice on steroids” get a boost under a Trump administration?

The Hechinger Report

(The House version of the bill already sets aside 3 percent, or roughly $410 million, mostly for outside tutoring services; changes could be made when the House and Senate versions are reconciled in conference committee.). We need to step back and start learning what policy environments work in terms of incentivizing the right behavior.