Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

It was geared to promoting school choice in all its forms mainly through grantees who advocated for it at the policy level. I was working in the trenches of the most confrontational aspect of education reform, trying to get laws passed to authorize vouchers, charter schools, tax-credits scholarships and education savings accounts.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

“Impact investing” is a term that has become increasingly common—even trendy—in the education sector. Many investors, foundations and even private equity firms have started so-called impact investment funds with a mission to support companies involved in teaching and learning. Now there’s a growing focus on competency-based learning.

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techlearning

MAY 29, 2018

Three years ago, we transformed Kankakee Public Schools’ general education track into the College and Career Academy, which is 100% focused on using PBL to prepare students for future jobs. In addition, we are one of 10 high school districts in Illinois that has started to move to competency-based learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2016

As schools begin to invest in competency-based education (CBE) and higher ed institutions set up competency-based programs, two of the big questions often unanswered become “is their focus on education or on learning ?” First and Foremost, Focus on Learning. And “what’s the difference?”.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

Maine has long been an innovator in education, stemming back to the Maine Learning Technology Initiative. Now all eyes are on our corner of the country as we transition from a traditional seat-time high school diploma to a proficiency-based diploma. Special Education. First, the basics.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Every year for the past 15 years the New Media Consortium and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) have been taking the pulse of where education technology stands among K-12 educators. Technology could be a productive part of this shift by changing where and how students engage with learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2022

For decades, advocates of competency-based education have been arguing that colleges should award credits based on assessing what students know rather than how many hours they’ve spent in class. Look for achievable steps that point toward large-scale change to a competency-based system.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this work feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. ” She was, apparently, at Koch Industries. ” Immigration and Education.

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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. Oh yes, I’m sure you can come up with some rousing successes and some triumphant moments that made you thrilled about the 2010s and that give you hope for “the future of education.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Secretary of Education, is giving parents freedom of choice, either to choose charter schools or to use vouchers to buy an education at any school they like, public or private. It remains to be seen whether a Trump Administration will boost them further, using federal policy. The editors.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

(National) Education Politics. ” And by “take on,” that means “investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants.” ” More via Buzzfeed and The Chronicle of Higher Education. ” Immigration and Education.

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