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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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Celebrating MOUSE: 15 Years of Engaging Kids, Narrowing Divide

MOUSE celebrated their 15th Anniversary on May 20th with a student led exhibit demonstrating the latest technologies and by h...

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Charter School Authorizing 2.0

Within the richness and diversity of the ed reform sector, the practice of charter school authorizing isn’t the trendiest. ...

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Video: Jim Shelton, Deputy Asst. Sec., DOE

Jim Shelton, Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Education speaks to the attendees at Virtual Schools Symposium in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Advancing a Global Learning Agenda

Arne Duncan is saying that educational advances in other countries do not necessarily equate to an American loss at home, or abroad. Rather, advances and innovations are win-win solutions for an entire global architecture. The Digital Learning Council has a sense of this kind of change coming, and is working hard to he...

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iPad will bring more innovation than i3

Real innovation is needed to close the achievement, teacher, and funding gap. It will come primarily from outside the system and from private enterprise; and it will be in spite of active discouragement from Ed.gov.

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Five Tips for Engaging Foreign Ed Providers in India

Recently, Raul Choudaha published an article on policy directions for engaging foreign education providers in India in University World News. He has co-authored previous papers with Professor Alan Ruby of the University of Pennsylvania. We publish the following post from his blog, Dr. Education.

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Entrepreneurs Fight: Free Enterprise or Social Democracy

Fascinating conversation between Jon Stewart and Arthur Brooks as they talk about the battle over free enterprise or European-style socialism in the United States. The framework here is looking at whether college education erodes entrepreneurial thinking.

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