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Jen Robert's Classroom in the Cloud

Jen Roberts is an amazing high school English teacher. She encourages her students to use mobile apps to collaborate and publ...

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It’s Time for The Next Big Advance: Comparable Growth Measures

The most important next step in the shift to personal digital learning is the need for comparable growth measures for individ...

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CEOs Want Hard-Working Decision-Making Team Players

A survey of chief executives indicates that 92% say education is very or the most important national competitiveness issue. ...

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EdTech 10: PD and Pilgrims

When you’re the parent of a 5 year old, you hear lots of jokes. Maybe you’ve heard this one - “If April Showers bring M...

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Think Outside the Box for Las Vegas Schools

The Getting Smart team led a school design workshop for The Executive Leadership Academy, hosted by The Public Education Foun...

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Florida Parent Leader Urges Online Ed Policy Reform

Cites Jeb Bush sponsored report calling on Florida to remove digital learning barriers, give families online school choices

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New Job Opening: Policy Analyst at Education Sector

Education Sector seeks a policy analyst to extend and build on our work across the areas of productivity, technology, and innovation in both K–12 and post-secondary education.

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Get Rid of Enrollment Cap for Virtual Charters

Governors Jeb Bush and Bob Wise released a study on digital learning that puts strength behind the growing numbers of parents looking to eliminate charter school caps in many states. Here's a story from Wisconsin

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The Fight Over Value-Added Teaching

Listen to this podcast about value-added teaching, and the uproar it is causing in large school districts.

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From Readership to Leadership: My Digital is Now

Dr. Bryan Setser, CEO of the North Carolina Virtual Public School, responds to the release of the Ten Elements of High Quality Digital Learning and provides five must-do leadership moves that he must enact after reading the report. He encourages others to do the same.

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CNN Interviews Bush and Wise on Digital Learning Now

Here is the CNN interview with Governors Bush and Wise that aired this morning. The two former governors released a quality guide to digital learning. They will be releasing a grading report of state uptake of the initiatives later in 2011. Keep watching for more updates of the Excellence in Action National Summit on E...

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Bush-Wise Statement on High Quality Digital Learning

Here is a statement that will be read with the release of Ten Elements for High Quality Digital Learning. We have provided links to the relevant pages and to the Ten Elements for your review.

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