Why Washington DC Is Still A Hotbed Of School Reform Activity
“After a lifetime here, I find it hard to believe how much experiments, excitement, progress and change are taking place in Washington,” said a veteran D.C. edreformer.
View ArticleMOOC Monitor: Must Reads This Week
Fresh links on the latest in MOOC land: MOOCs get some cred through American Council of Edu, a Coursera/edX smackdown by an MIT student, Clay Shirky says MOOCs are the Napster of EDU.
View ArticleAnnie Murphy Paul: Why Confusion Creates New Learning Pathways
Reading a story by the surrealist writer Franz Kafka, or watching a movie by the eccentric filmmaker David Lynch, imposes on us a meaning threat—the uncomfortable feeling that nothing quite makes sense.
View ArticleAn Ashford University Student Describes Her Frustrations With The School
I kept getting misguided advice from day one with Ashford. They wanted me to start right away, even BEFORE they received my transcripts! I was 4 months into the program when they contacted me about how...
View ArticleInfographic: The Secret Sauce Of America’s Irreplaceable Teachers
Do you remember a favorite teacher from grade school, who impacted your life? Did he or she unlock the keys to reading or math for you? Here’s an infographic that explains why the best teachers are...
View ArticleFlipping Your Household By Making A Tech Contract With Your Kids
Psychologist and parent Lynn Schofield Clark did. She writes in the Psychology Today blog that she liked the 18-point contract that a New England mom wrote up for her 13-year-old son, however, as we...
View ArticleAnnie Murphy Paul: When Competition Enhances & When Competition Hinders
Human beings are supremely sensitive to context, to the cues we sense in our surroundings, and never more so than when we’re performing.
View ArticleKhan Academy Selects Idaho As Proving Ground For Flipped Classroom Experiment
Khan announced that it would partner with Idaho schools for a massive trial run.
View ArticleInfographic: MOOC Completion Rates
An interactive data visual of publicly available data for MOOCs from Coursera, edX, Udacity, and MITx.
View ArticleBerlin EdTech Startup Scolibri Designing LMS Platform With Teachers In Mind
Scolibri, which won a Europas Award for Best Education startup in January, has taken a slow, steady path before it launches its learning management system product this month. We just did a lot of...
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