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Leadership

From Batch Print to Show What You Know

The shift from print to digital is a big deal, but in many ways the shift from cohorts to competency is the more profound transformation underway in education.

3 months ago by Getting Smart Staff

Learning

How Online Learning is Saving and Improving Rural High Schools

Nearly 150,000 schools were closed in the U.S. in the last century in waves of consolidations owing to budgets, busing, algebra and football. Conventional wisdom was that bigger was better and cheaper. Well, that better thing didn't work out so well and it turns out that there are some diseconomies of scale as a result...

3 months ago by Tom Vander Ark

Learning

Microsoft Innovative Schools

New school models that leverage technology provide a useful picture of the future. Last week, in a three-blog series, I profiled next generation school models that leverage newopportunities, incorporate experiential learning, and promote system redesign.

4 months ago by Tom Vander Ark

Learning

10,000 Teachers Collaborate on Common Core-Alignment Project

None of those old basal textbooks are aligned to the Common Core State Standards, but they all include great content. What to do? About 10,000 teachers on Edmodo have turned to the The Basal Alignment Project, an online library of revised replacement lessons from common basal reading series (3rd-5th grades) each carefu...

4 months ago by Tom Vander Ark

Learning

Next-Gen Models Break New Ground, Promote System Redesign

The 20 breakthrough school models recognized by the Gates Foundation funded Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) took on the turnaround challenge, leveraged higher education partnerships, and improved the performance and sustainability of school networks (as outlined inpart one of this three-part series). They al...

4 months ago by Tom Vander Ark

advocacy partner

MIND Research Institute

The nonprofit MIND Research Institute is dedicated to solving math education in America through its cutting-edge approach to teaching and learning math. Its uniquely visually-based ST Math instructional software program is helping children across the country dramatically improve their math proficiency and become life-l...

Learning

ASAP Case Study: Prizes Can Focus & Accelerate Innovation

The case study, “Automated Student Assessment Prize Phase One and Phase Two: A Case Study to Promote Focused Innovation in Student Writing Assessment,” was released today. It takes a close look at the ways the two phases of The Automated Student Assessment Prize (ASAP) demonstrated current capabilities and mobilize...

4 months ago by Tom Vander Ark

EdTech

Premium Content is Dead, Long Live Premium Content

With the shift from print to digital and the explosion of the new open education resources (OER) is there any place for premium content? It is becoming more common to hear, “Content is becoming a commodity.”

4 months ago by Tom Vander Ark