Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

The Jaquelin Hume Foundation’s mission is to accelerate the implementation of high quality blended/personalized learning in America’s schools. During that time, I was proselytizing for the introduction of technology as an integral part of the curriculum, a mantra that mostly fell on deaf ears. So we were off and running.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

WHAT: Piedmont Middle School is seeking to pilot digital learning programs that support competency-based learning in science and social studies. The district is working with Digital Promise to conduct an effective learning technology pilot this spring, from product selection to purchase decision.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

From 2004 to 2009, transfer students on average lost 43 percent of their credits—basically a semester’s worth. In an education world driven more by inputs than learning outcomes, it’s hard to prove the case one way or the other. In this system, learners would own their records and bring independent proof of their learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

President Obama allowed the program to expire in 2009, but it was reauthorized for five years in 2011. Reform of student aid rules would be well timed, amid a growing shift across both the learning and hiring landscape. It allows about 1,200 eligible students in Washington D.C. Its future looks bright.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

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 Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

The New York Times has a new education supplement, called Learning, and The Hechinger Report is collaborating with the Times to produce Bulletin Board, a collection of noteworthy ideas and trends in education that will appear on page 2 of the section, which will come out four times a year. The April issue’s theme was “Nontraditional learning.”

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