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In Support of the Common Core

Common Core State Standards are thoughtful expressions of college- and career-ready expectations in reading, writing and math...

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Building a Digital Depository

Benjamin Riley explains exciting times for education entrepreneurship, technology and the policy ecosystem that surrounds the...

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NCLB: Under the Bus, But Not a Total Loss

Today AEI released a report, NCLB sanctions: Tests taken, lessons learned. The authors found that “School accountability ...

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Common Core: A Platform for Equity & Innovation

The Common Core is giant platform for innovation for American education. The Common Core and the digital learning revolution...

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Simple Tech Solutions for Creating Community on Campus

When students are involved in on-campus activities, they are more engaged in their courses. A few simple tech tools that youâ...

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Next Generation Science Standards: A Guide to the 2nd Draft

The second draft of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) is now available for public comment at http://www.nextgenscience.org/. This final public draft will be available online for everyone to review and provide feedback until January 29. Following this comment period, Achieve and the lead state partners will c...

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Overcoming the Governance Challenge in K-12 Online Learning

Yesterday Fordham released the fifth and final paper in its Creating Sound Policy for Digital Learning series, "Overcoming the Governance Challenge in K-12 Online Learning" by John Chubb. After outlining the collision of digital opportunity and local control, Chubb outlines ten steps to get us to this brave new govern...

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Staff Picks: AEI & Fordham Reports, McGraw-Hill Language Arts

This week, Karen picks the AEI report Good and Evil. Caroline picks the launch of McGraw-Hill Education's new online language arts program. Sarah picks an article by Lauren Wanger on improving online learning with self-directed learning measures. Tom picks two must read papers from Fordham Institute.

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Fordham Releases Study On Performance Trends of Top Students

The Thomas Fordham Institute released today “Do High Flyers Maintain ...

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Charter Schools Lack Autonomy to Get Stuff Done, Says Thomas Fordham Institute

The Thomas Fordham Institute has come out with their newest study on charter schools.

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