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EdTech Women Dine at ISTE 13

Join us for an evening of dining and networking with other women in education technology, including a stellar group of ISTE p...

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EdTech 10: Rocks or Frozen?

This weekend marks the unofficial start of summer. To paraphrase the great American poet Jimmy Buffet, it’s time to nibble...

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Next Gen Science Standards 101

The Institute for Science and Math Education at the University of Washington recently offered a crash course on the Next Gene...

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DragonBox: This Is How You Gamify

DragonBox develops a user’s fundamental skills in algebra before teaching its context and application.

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Know Think Do

For John Danner, learning can be thought about in three parts: the need to know things, how to solve problems, and how to be ...

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Kansas City: A Great Education Improvement Story

Kansas City, Kansas is a great education reform story.   Restructuring ...

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Six premises, seven ideas for better teacher training

At the Twitter Town Hall with Education Secretary Arne Duncan (related: the full transcript of that dialogue is online) on August 24, he promised some new initiatives regarding schools of education. In the hope that the suggestion box is still open, I have a suggestion — not for the Secretary but for schools and coll...

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Debating Petrilli’s Post “One size fits most” for Ed Reform

By Bruno Behrend We education reformers are a fractious lot.  ...

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Indiana Chief Outlines Reforms

Tony Bennett is Indiana superintendent of public education. Bennet chairs Chiefs for Change and was recently recognized by Fordham as a leading reformer. Here's a few excerpts from his blog today.

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Responding To Tennessee State Representative Craig Fitzhugh

I couldn’t let this column by state Rep. Craig Fitzhugh (D-TN) titled, “Virtual Schools Bad for Education Reform” go by without responding. It was so full of errors I almost didn’t know where to start. I don’t know Rep. Fitzhugh, so I won’t suggest he was intentionally misleading readers. I’ll just giv...

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Madison County: “A great place to be if you’re a kid”

Spend a few minutes with Tommy Floyd, superintendent of schools in Madison County Kentucky, and you'll be optimistic about public education.

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The Name Game

It’s silly season again, and I’m not referring to the Republican primaries. No, I’m thinking about the all-out battle for proponents and opponents of “reform” to stick a nasty label on the other side and claim the mantle of truth and goodness for themselves. This is nothing new, of course (Sean Cavanagh had a...

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