Learning Strategies in 2012+ – RESEARCH

RESEARCH that Directly Supports Classroom and Online Sustained, Student Success, Performance Improvement Outcomes; 260+Resources, as of 06/05/17, with 100’s of Hyperlinks and Growing

Tom McDonald, McDonald Sales and Marketing, LLC., 1/6/12

You also may find  “Supporting Articles Validating the Urgent Need for Education Reform” Pages 1-5 interesting

Bill Brandon, in Learning Solutions Magazine, does a very nice job of identifying the new learning strategies in his 12/30/11 article

The new long term, learning model is below, with additional, supporting, documentation. Those that come closest to this new, truly personalized,  disruptive, learning model, will achieve individual, critical, learning , transfer, successful application, behavior change and adaptive reasoning skills, consistent with strategic individual/organizational objectives, in the shortest individual time possible (think differentiated instruction and differentiated reinforcement).

Those that hang on to the traditional one to many ‘sage on the stage’ approach (think event based lecture) will be left behind.

The New Long term, Learning Model:

(1)  Instructor facilitated, truly personalized, learning methodology, over time, (2) With instructor facilitated, truly personalized, reinforcement, over time, (3) In an instructor facilitated, truly personalized blended learning environment, over time,  (4) Supplemented by truly personalized learning technology.

Where individual long term, learning, = Instructor Facilitated, Appropriate:  initial understanding, ongoing reinforcement, fluency/mastery, recall (eliminating forgetting), application, stick/behavior change, in the most effective and most efficient way possible

This key question still remains:

If individual learning, of critical must know information to fluency,  in the shortest time possible, consistent with strategic organizational objectives  is the new mandate, why are we not changing to embrace the new model? Here are some possible weak reasons against change…and some strong arguments for change.

(1) I’m integrating personalized learning  and accelerated learning methodologies into my instruction…

…Spectacular! You are on the right path. Note that for affordable and scalable, differentiated instruction and differentiated reinforcement to occur (truly personalized learning), you need truly personalized learning technology. This will integrate research proven learning methodologies into your instruction as well as into your the learning software, empowering each participant with a consistent, personalized and customized learning plan, as well as individualized spacing,  pacing and reinforcement over time (customized to each individual).

(2) There are so many ‘learning technology’ choices available. I don’t know where to start…

…There are lots and lots of ‘learning technology’ choices, but you will find very few of them offer truly personalized learning technology (TPLT). Ask these questions to narrow your focus to truly personalized learning technology:  (a) Does your TPLT offer true differentiated learning and differentiated reinforcement?  (b) Does your TPLT allow for the assessment of individual student learning gaps and then create a customized learning plan for each student specific to their individual learning gaps? (c)  Does your TPLT allow you to monitor the learning progress of each individual participant? (d) Outline your TPLT individualized learning methodology. (e) Please send me the learning research theory & learning methodology that supports your TPLT learning platform. (f) Show me real examples of where your learning technology has advanced individual learning. (g) Can I see a demo of your TPLT where you demonstrate and explain your truely personalized approach?

Keep in mind that a one to many teaching methodology, (think lecture), individually delivered over cool technology, IS NOT personalized learning, nor is it truly personalized learning technology.

(3) The supporting/validating research is not there…

… This is just not the case. There is more than adequate learning research validating this new approach, including documented, real learning advances:

NOTE: On purpose, I have ceased updating the sequential numbering, here, due to it no longer providing real value for anyone. The number of individual resources is more than adequate to reflect a consistency of research and best practices, to measurably advance, sustained, student success, performance improvement outcome methodologies, for ALL students. IF your focus is only on the numbering and not on the content, you essentially have missed the forest from the trees.

1. Academia

2. Academic Impressions

• About
  • Areas of Expertise
    • News, Publications, Newsletter

      • One Stop: How One Institution Transitioned to a High-Performing Student Services Model

3.  Academy for Innovative Higher Education Leadership

• How We Can Make Higher Education Great Again

4. Achieve

• The College and Career Readiness of U.S. High School Graduates
• EQuIP (Educators Evaluating theQuality ofInstructional Products) is an initiative designed to identify high-quality materials aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
• Achieve’s College and Career Readiness Quiz
• Count All Kids: Using the 9th Grade Cohort to Improve Transparency and Accountability

5. Achieving the Dream

5. ACT

• Research
• ACT Scores Paint Troubling Picture For Students Of Color
• Profile Report, National, Graduating Class 2017

6. AdvancED

• About
  • Improvement Services, Including Research
    • The Paradox of Classroom Technology: Despite Proliferation and Access, Students Not Using Technology for Learning

7. Affective Neuroscience Laboratory   UW Milwaukee

• Publications

8. AffordableCollegesOnline.org

• Ask if their online software platform is (1) 20th Century, factory based, traditional, one size fits all, or is (2) 21st Century, educationally innovative. Avoid the traditional one size fits all software platform

9. After School Alliance

• About
  • Research

10. Alliance for Excellent Education

• “The Nation’s Schools Are Stepping Up to Higher Standards,” (November 2012)
• “Culture Shift: Teaching in a Learner-Centered Environment Powered by Digital Learning”, ( May 2012)
  • Panel: Teacher preparation needs overhaul
    • Read the Alliance for Excellent Education (AEE) report: Culture Shift: Teaching in a Learner-Centered Environment Powered by Digital Learning
•  Report Finds Economic Success Hinges on Education Equity
  

• Inseparable Imperatives: Equity in Education and the Future of the American Economy (November 2012)
• Strengthening High School Teaching and Learning in New Hampshire’s Competency-Based System (January 2013)
• Project 24: State and District Level Planning for Progress
• Using Technology to Support At-Risk Students’ Learning

11.  Alliance to Reform Education Leadership

• Operating in the Dark
  • What Outdated State Policies and Data Gaps mean for Effective School Leadership  

12. Ambient Insight Research (Now named METAARI)

• International eLearning Market Research
  • The 2016-2021 Self-paced eLearning Market: Global eLearning Market is in Steep Decline  (Traditional one size fits all eLearning)
• Digitial Worldwide English Language Learning Market
• Game Based Learning Research
• Global Mobile Learning Market Research

13. America Achieves

• Focus Areas

14. American Academy of Arts and Sciences

• The Complex Universe of Alternative Postsecondary Credentials and Pathways
  • The Report 
  • Evidence of ROI for Alternative Credentials ‘Weak’
• Advanced Degrees in the Humanities

14. American Academy of Pediatrics

• School Start Times for Adolescents

14. American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

• Resources

15. American Association of Community Colleges

• The Pathways Project
  • Building Clear Paths
• The Right Signals Initiative

16. American Council on Education (ACE)

• Instructional Quality, Student Outcomes, and Institutional Finances

17. American Educational Research Association (AERA)

• Science Achievement Gaps Begin Very Early, Persist, and Are Largely Explained by Modifiable Factors
• AERA Announces Most Read Education Research Articles of 2015
• What role should research play in the policy arena?
• The Teacher Shortage: A Case of Wrong Diagnosis and Wrong Prescription

18. American Federation for Children

• About
  • American Federation for Children Growth Fund

19. American Federation of Teachers (AFT)

19. American Institutes for Research (AIR)

• Impact of TNTP’s Teaching Fellows in Urban School Districts
• Three Studies
  • (3) Professional Development Shown to Improve Teachers’ Knowledge and Some Aspects of Teaching But Not Student Achievement
  • (2) Middle School Mathematics Professional Development Impact Study: Findings After the Second Year of Implementation
  • (1) Impact of Two Professional Development Interventions on Early Reading Instruction and Achievement Report
• Deeper Learning
  • The Shape of Deeper Learning: Strategies, Structures, and Cultures in Deeper Learning Network High Schools (1 of 3)
  • Providing Opportunities for Deeper Learning (2 of 3)
  • Evidence of Deeper Learning Outcomes
  • Economic Success Metrics (ESM) Program
    • College Measures
      • Launch My Career Colorado, Return on Investment (ROI) Tools
  • Looking Under the Hood of Competency-Based Education: The Relationship Between Competency-Based Education Practices and Students’ Learning Skills, Behaviors, and Dispositions
  • Measuring the Economic Success of College Graduates: Lessons From the Field
• National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
  • Raising the Bar for College Admission: North Carolina’s Increase in Minimum Math Course Requirements

20. American Journal of Psychiatry

• mpact of Early Intervention on Psychopathology, Crime, and Well-Being at Age 25

21. Annie E. Casey Foundation

• Kids Count Data Center

  • The 2016 KIDS COUNT Data Book

    • State Trends in Child Well Being

22. Arnold Foundation (The Laura and John Arnold Foundation)

• Initiatives – Education
  • Betting on a New Model for Schools: Inside Arnold’s K-12 Grantmaking

22. ASCD – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

• Books and Publications
  • Students at the Center: Personalized Learning with Habits of Mind
• Educational Leadership
  • Project-Based Learning: 7 Ways to Make It Work
• Newsletters
  • ASCD Express 
  • Education Update
  • Policy Priorities
  • SmartBrief

23. Aspen Institute

• Education

• National Commission Advocating Social and Emotional Development

 24. Association for Psychological Science

• Psychological Science
  • Selectively Distracted: Divided Attention and Memory for Important Information

25.  Association of Computational and Mathematical Modeling (AoCMM)

• About

25. Attendance Works

• Research
  • Report: 6 million students miss too much school

26. Australian Government Department of Education and Training

• New South Wales Department of Education and Training (Dept. Of Edu)
  • Australian Curriculum
  • Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA)
  • Research and Assessment
    • National Assessment Program (NAP)
      • The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN)
    • Quality teaching in NSW public schools
• Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
  • Research
  • Assessments
  • Resources and Publications
• Australian Institute of Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL)
  • Research and Evaluation

27. Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ascilite)

• Australasian Journal of Education Technology

28. BABSON SURVEY RESEARCH GROUP – in the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurial Research at Babson College

• Online Report Card: Tracking Online Education in the United States

• Research highlights imperative of higher ed planning, advising reform

• “What We Teach: K-12 School District Curriculum Adoption Process, 2017

29. Barksdale Reading Institute (BRI)

• One reason so many kids in Mississippi fail reading tests?
  • 2014-15 Study of Mississippi Teacher Preparation for Early Literacy Instruction

29. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

• Machine Learning Predicts Conduct Disorder in Kids

30. Blackboard

• Future Forward: The Next 20 Years of Higher Education
• Building teachers’ capacity and competency to create new learning experiences
  for students

30. Blended Learning Institute – BLU_; Formerly The Clayton Christensen Institute

• Blended Learning Models
• Research
• School Directory – Searchable

31. Bloomberg

• Want to Fix Education? Give a Kid a Tutor

32. Brady Education Foundation

• Montessori Initiative

32. Brigham Young University

• Teaching without Training

32.  Brookings

• Should College Come with a Money-Back Guarantee?
• How important are high school courses to college performance? Less than you might think
• How Blogs, Social Media, and Video Games Improve Education
• Innovation Imperative: The Future of Higher Education
• Big Data for Education: Data Mining, Data Analytics, and Web Dashboards
• Harnessing Technology to Improve K-12 Education
• Learning from the Successes and Failures of Charter Schools
• Education Technology Success Stories
  • Brookings Report Praises Robot ‘Teaching Assistants’ Among Other EdTech Successes
• Using earnings data to rank colleges: A value-added approach updated with College Scorecard data
• 2016 Brown Center Report on American Education: How Well Are American Students Learning – Part II: Tracking and Advanced Placement
  • Review of 2016 Brown Center Report on American Education – Part II: Tracking and Advanced Placement
• Don’t believe the headlines: Educational standards are not collapsing
• Using Technology to Personalize Learning and Assess Students in Real-Time

33. Burning Glass Technologies

• Higher Education

  • WSJ: Should Businesses Value Free MBA Classes Taken By Workers?

    • New research questions the value of certificates pushed by colleges, policymakers

33. Cambridge University Press

• From ‘sense of number’ to ‘sense of magnitude’ – The role of continuous magnitudes in numerical cognition

34.  Campaign for Grade Level Reading, The (Janz Ganz Cooney Center)

• How to Promote Literacy Skills in the Digital Age
  • “Pioneering Literacy in the Digital Wild West: Empowering Parents and Educators.”

35. Campus Compact

• Professional Development and Training

36. CAPA – The Global Education Network

• Our Story

  • New Tech to Revolutionize Studying Abroad Education

37. Carnegie

• Wintergreen Orchard House
  • The College Finder
  • The College Sourcebook
  • Major Decisions: A Guide to College Majors

37. Center for American Progress

• Hidden in Plain Sight, Understanding Part-Time College Students in America

37. Center for Analysis of Post Secondary Education and Employment (capsee)

• Do Students Benefit From Going Backward? The Academic and Labor Market Consequences of Four- to Two-Year College Transfer

38. Center for Community College Student Engagement – (CCCSE)

• Expectations Meet Reality: The Underprepared Student and Community Colleges

39. Center for Data Innovation

• Building a Data-Driven Education System in the United States

  • K-12 data is failing students-here’s what education could look like

• The Best States for Data Innovation
  • The Full Report

40. Center For Digital Education

• e Evolving Classroom
• Converge: 2012 Digital yearbook
• The Blended & Virtual Learning Frontier Special Report
• Specialty Classroom Technologies – A Special Report
• Big Data in Education
• Personalized Learning: Creating a Relevant Learning Culture for the Next Generation
• What Ed Tech Researchers Discovered About Online Credit Recovery, Digital Divide
• Embracing Digitial

41. Center for Education Data and Research (CEDR)

• Mission

42.  Center for Education Innovation (CEI) – Mississippi

• About

43. Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) – New York City

• About

44. Center for Education Reform

• Charter Sector Needs Infusion of New Ideas, Center for Education Reform Says

  • THE NEW OPPORTUNITY AGENDA, ED REFORM “I.O”: INNOVATION + OPPORTUNITY = RESULTS,A MOVEMENT AT RISK – A MANIFESTO

45. Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)

• Alliance for Quality Career Pathways
• Connecting Credentials
  • Building Learning-Based Credentialing Systems

45. Center For Public Education (CPE)

• Effective Professional Development in an Era of high Stakes Accountability
  • The Full Report

45. Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE)

• Financing Personalized Learning: What Can We Learn From First-Generation Adopters?

46. Center For Secondary School Redesign (CSSR)

• What We Do

47. Center On International Education Benchmarking (CIEB)

• Primary School Teacher Quality in Top-Performing Systems
• Preparing to Lead: Lessons in Principal Development from High-Performing Education Systems

48. Century Foundation

• Research
  • Why Performance-Based College Funding Doesn’t Work

49. Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

• Chan-Zuckerberg to Push Ambitious New Vision for Personalized Learning

49. Chapman Alliance – Bryan Chapman

• How Long Does it Take to Create Learning?

50. Chiefs of Change; Johns Hopkins School of Education & Tembo

• Student growth simulator will help states, districts set learning goals under ESSA
  • Student Growth Simulator

51. Chronicle of Higher Education

• Executive Compensation at Private and Public Colleges

52. City and Guilds

• Learning to be Employable

53. Civic Enterprises

• Closing the College Gap; A Roadmap to Postsecondary Readiness and Attainment

  • Betting on a New Model for Schools: Inside Arnold’s K-12 Grantmaking

53. Clayton Christensen Institute

• Research
  • Education
    • Blended Learning Universe
• “The State Innovator’s Toolkit,”: A Guide to Successfully Managing Innovation Under ESSA
  • Paper

54. Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL)

• Research

55. College Board

• Trends in Higher Education

  • Trends in College Pricing

  • Trends in Student Aid

• Big Future
  • Find Colleges
  • Pay for College
  • Make a Plan
• SAT Suite of Assessments – Annual Report, 2017

56. Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce

• Tough Choices or Tough Times

57. Common Sense Education

• Ed Tech Reviews and Resources

57. Community College Research Center –  (CCCR),  at Columbia University

• Online Education and Instructional Technology

58. Competency Based Education Network (C-BEN)

• About the Network
  • Resource Library
    • HigherEd.org Portal

59. Connected Learning Research Network, The

• The Digital Media and Learning Research Hub Reports on Connected Learning
  • A Research Synthesis Report of the Connected Learning Research Network
    • Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design

60. Consortium for Advancing Adult Learning & Development (CAALD)

60. Consortium For School Networking (CoSN)

• Focus Areas
• Surveys:
  • K-12 IT Leaders

    • K-12 IT Leaders See Broadband and Network Capacity as Top Priorities

• CoSN Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Tool
  • Tool helps school technology leaders understand the costs associated with the computing environment. Versions of this free web-based tool have been used by over 2,000 public school districts, independent schools, and state and regional agencie
• Framework of Essential Skills of the K-12 CTO

61. CORE Districts

• About us

61. Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP)

• Knowledge Center

61. Council of Chief State School Officers – (CCSSO)

• Resources
  • The Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC)
    • An Interactive Guide to Understanding and Applying the InTASC Standards to Teacher Effectiveness and Student Success
  • CCSSO Releases Playbook for Transforming Educator Preparation
    • Transforming Educator Preparation: Lessons Learned from Leading States

62. Council of Independent Colleges (CIC)

• Research and Data

62. Credible

• Cities Where Student Loan Borrowers Struggle the Most with Student Debt

63. CREDO – Center for Research on Educational Outcomes at Stanford University

• Online Charter School Study 2015

64. Data Quality Campaign

• Resources
  • Data for Action 2012: Focus on People to Change Data Culture
    • The Report
• Show me the Data
  • Read our analysis below of what we could find in report cards from all 50 states and DC
    • Report: States not making the grade on report cards

65. Deming Institute – The W. Edwards Deming Institute

• Education

66. Department for Education and Skills (DfES), The – UK

• An Investigation of Personalized Learning: Approaches used by Schools; The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) commissioned the Universities of Sussex and Cambridge and the London Institute of Education to explore the personalised learning approaches used by schools in England.

67. Digital Clarity Group

• Digital Transformation in Higher Education: How Content Management Technologies and Practices Are Evolving in the Era of Experience Management

  .

68. Digital Education Research Network – (DERN); Managed by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), see above

• Research
  • Research Briefs
• MOOCs and professional development of teachers
  • The Research Report

69. Digital Learning Now!

• “10 Elements of High Quality Digital Learning”
• “Blended Learning Implementation Guide for Schools and Districts”
  • The Guide
• “Funding the Shift to Digital Learning: Three Strategies for Funding Sustainable High-Access Environments”
• “Data Backpacks: Portable Records & Learner Profiles”
• “Getting Ready for Online Assessments”
• “The Shift from Cohorts to Competency”; An In-Depth Look at Competency-Based Education
  • The Paper
• The second annual Digital Learning Report Card is out, grading significant policy decisions (on a state-by-state basis) which “are advancing student-centric reforms, reducing barriers to blended learning, and encouraging the use of technology to offer a more personalized college- and career-ready education.”
  • Seeking the Devil in the Details in the Digital Learning Report Card

70.  Digital Promise

• Bridging the divide between ed tech research and the classroom; website provides a way to visualize complex research into teaching and learning
  • Research Map Website
    • Ask a Researcher
      • Harvard’s Usable Knowledge Project
  • Videos
• Ed-Tech Pilot Framework
• Sharing the Results of the 2016 Research-Based Products Campaign
• League of Innovative Schools
• Join Personalized Learning for All

71. DJS Research

• Students say campus technology needs major overhaul–but why?
  • Infographic

72. Driving Toward a Degree

• The Initiative
  • Research highlights imperative of higher ed planning, advising reform

73. Duke University

• Homework is wrecking our kids: The research is clear, let’s ban elementary homework

73a. Dyslexia, 20 Useful Apps for Kids with Dyslexia and Learning Disabilities

• WizCase

74. EdSurgeNews

• Product Index

• Concierge

• ‘There’s No Such Thing as Average’: Todd Rose on Brain Science and the Limitations of Standards

• Can the Industry’s Most Provocative Software Make a Difference in the Classroom?

75. eCampus News

Research shows 3 ways going digital improves student performance

• 1. Improving grades
  • MasteringA&P® educator study reports on implementation results at University of Texas at Tyler
  • Efficacy Study of InQuizitive for American Government
  • The Impact of Connect on Student Success
• 2. Overall learning improvements
  • Better Engagement, Better Outcomes — MindTap® Proves Its Impact in the Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Increasing Student Learning and Engagement with MindTap® for Economics
  • LaunchPad,  Fall 2015 Analysis
  • LearningCurve: Case Studies
• 3. Students stay in class
  • Undergraduate Retention and Graduation Rates
  • The Impact of Connect on Student Success
  • Using personalized learning, a developmental math professor increases her course passing rate by 31.8 percentage points

76. EDC

• About
  • Resources

77. EdTechDigest

• In-depth with big-hearted Mark Milliron of Civitas Learning.

77. Ed Tech Magazine

• Rise Above Your Silo Mentality with Technology Implementation

• 4 Tips to Prep Students for Careers That Won’t Be Automated

78. Edtech World Tour

• Learning from Best Practices Around the World in Education Innovation
  • Beyond the Hype : Mapping Edtech Clusters and Creating Open-Source Resources for a Refined Understanding of the Global Ecosystem
    • What are the key components of an ecosystem that an edtech startup needs to thrive?

79. EdTrust

• The School Improvement Process: An Overview

79. Educational Psychologist

• Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching; Volume 41,Issue 2, 2006XIII

80. Education Dive

• What role should research play in the policy arena?

81. Education Elements

• Better Schools Lead to Increases in Student Enrollment

81. Education Evolving

• Theory of change
• Education Evolving Initiatives:
  • Teacher Powered Schools
    • About the Teacher Powered Schools Movement

82. EducationNext

• High-stakes teacher evaluations drive student success in Washington, D.C

82. Education Northwest

• Resources
  • Online credit recovery: Enrollment and passing patterns in Montana Digital Academy courses

83. Education Schools Project

• The Education Schools Project provides a critical assessment of the ways in which the nation’s 1,200 schools of education prepare—and should prepare—teachers, school administrators, and education researchers.
  • Reports:
    • Educating School Leaders: March, 2005
    • Educating School Teachers: September, 2006
    • Educating Scholars and Researchers: May, 2007

84. Education Technology Industry Network of SIIA  (ETIN) (SIIA)

• About
  • Resources

85. Education  Trust

• Fixing America’s College Attainment Problems: It’s About More Than Affordability
• Meandering Toward Graduation: Transcript Outcomes of High School Graduates

86. Educational Psychologist

• Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching; Volume 41, Issue 2, 2006XIII

87. Education Reform Now

• Americans Spending At Least $1.5 Billion in College Remediation Courses; Middle Class Pays the Most
• Teachers Unions, Do You Really Think It’s Okay to Spend Less on Poor Kids?T
• The Damage Caused by State Higher Ed Budget Cuts Extends Beyond Increased Tuition

88. Education Research Alliance of New Orleans

• Research Areas

89. Education Week

• RFPs Reveal District, State Priorities
• Project-Based and Place-Based Learning in New Tech Schools
• 12 On-Ramps for Personalized and Competency-Based Learning
• Education Week Research Center
  • Mindset in the Classroom: A National Study of K-12 Teachers

90. Educators4Excellence

• The best schools in the world do this. Why don’t we?

91. Educause

• Research and Publications
  • 2016 Students and Technology Research Study

92. Edutopia

• Advisory: 22 Ways to Build Relationships for Educational Success

• Differentiated Instruction

  • Why Don’t We Differentiate Professional Development?

• Six Tips for Brain-based Learning: A Resource Guide for K-12 Educators
• What Doesn’t Work: Literacy Practices We Should Abandon

93. edWeb.net

• Research and Resources
  • Join Personalized Learning for ALL

94. Effective School Improvement

94. Epic-ed

• TPACK 101: This video podcast describes the importance of integrating technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge into classrooms (TPACK)

95. eSchool News

• Stop asking whether laptops improve learning outcomes

• What will the LMS of the future look like?

96. Evergreen Education Group; (kpk12.com)

• Keeping Pace with K-12 Digital Learning: An Annual Review of Policy and Practice (2015)
  • Download Report, Here
• School Accountability in the Digital Age
• Teaching Online Across State Lines
• Teaching with Technology

97. ExcelinEd

• Mission and History

98. Facebook

• Facebook-backed LMS gives students more lesson plan power

99. Fast Track Project

• Overview. 50CAN – 50-State Campaign for Achievement Now

• A Call to Action to Improve the Quality of Full-Time Virtual Charter Public Schools
  • The Report

100.  Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

• “Sustaining Discovery in Biological and Medical Sciences,”

101. Fit 2 Learn

• Vision and Visual Processing
• Charlotte Davies

101. Flatiron School

• Outcomes

101. Fordham Institute (Thomas B. Fordham)

• Leveraging ESSA to Support Quality-School Growth
  • NEPC Review: Leveraging ESSA to Support Quality-School Growth
• America’s Mediocre Test Scores; Education crisis or poverty crisis?
• Digital Learning: A Working Paper Series from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute
• Quality Control in K-12 Digital Learning: Three (Imperfect) Approaches
• Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction
• School Finance in the Digital Learning Era
• How Should School Districts Shape Teacher Salary Schedules? Linking School Performance to Pay Structure in Traditional Compensation Schemes
  • The Original Article 
• Evaluation of Ohio’s EdChoice Scholarship Program: Selection, Competition, and Performance Effects
• Enrollment and Achievement in Ohio’s Virtual Charter Schools
  • Download the Report
• Failing by design: How we make teaching too hard for mere mortals
• Teacher Absenteeism in Charter and Traditional Public Schools

102. Forrester 

• Research
  • How to Select a Learning Management System

103. Franklin Foundation

• Areas of Focus

104. Freidman Foundation for Educational Choice

• A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on School Choice

105. Frontline Research and Learning Institute

• Professionally Related Absences: Incidence, Causes & Key Findings for School Districts  

106. Furman University

• The Riley Institute
  • Montessori Education
  • New Tech Schools
  • S.C. Statewide Education Study

106. Future Ready Schools Initiative

• About
  • The Pledge

107. Gallup

• College Presidents: Rankings Least Vital Measure of Success
• The Gallup 2017 Survey of K-12 School District Superintendents

108. Gartner

• AI, Merging of Digital and Physical Worlds Among Top 10 Tech Trends for 2018

108. Gates Foundation, The

• Our Education Efforts Are Evolving
• “Primary Sources: 2012; Americas Teachers on the Teaching Profession“,  a study by the Gates Foundation and Scholastic
• Bill Gates: My Plan to Fix The World’s Biggest Problems
• Bill Gates: Invest in better teaching
  • Teacher Training – New Teacher Center (NTC)
• 2013 Annual Letter
• In Pittsburgh, Gates testing ways to give teacher quick feedback
• Continued Progress: Promising Evidence on Personalized Learning
• Collegemeasures.org
• The complexity of the higher education landscape and why there can be no one-size-fits-all approach
• Research highlights imperative of higher ed planning, advising reform
• The Gates Foundation’s Teaching Partnerships: 5 Early Research Takeaways

109. General Assembly

• Measuring What Matters
  • An Open Source Framework for Reporting Student Outcomes, Using AICPA Criteria

110. Generation Study Abroad (Part of Institute of International Education – IIE)

• Generation Study Abroad

111. Georgetown University

• McCourt School of Public Policy
  • Center on Education and the Workforce
    • Trump ’ s Infrastructure Proposal Could Create 11 Million Jobs

112. Georgia Institute of Technology

• Exploring How Parents in Economically Depressed Communities Access Learning Resources

113. Getting Smart

• Get the Culture Right: The Most Important New School Factor

114. Government Accounting Office (GAO)

• HIGHER EDUCATION-Education Should Address Oversight and Communication Gaps in Its  Monitoring of the Financial Condition of Schools

114. GOVTECH

• K20 by the Numbers

114. GradeInflation.com

• Grade Inflation at American Colleges and Universities

115. Harvard University

• Usable Knowledge Project
• Graduate School of Education
  • Learning Innovations Laboratory (LILA)
    • • What is LILA?
  • Mind, Brain, and Education Program
    • There’s no such thing as “average.”
      • Center for Individual Opportunity
        •  Science 
          • “The End of Average.”
• Center For Brain Science
  • Forgetting Does Not Reverse the Learning Process
• Center for Education Policy Research
• MOOCs
  • Socioeconomic Status and MOOC Enrollment: Enriching Demographic Information with External Datasets
  • Democratizing Education? Examining Access and Usage Patterns in Massive Open Online Courses
• Harvard Business Review (HBR)

  • The One Type of Leader Who Can Turn Around a Failing School

116. Headstart

• Intergenerational Effects of an Anti-Poverty Program in Early Childhood 

116. Hechinger Report

• State-of-the-art education software often doesn’t help students learn more, study finds

• After decades of pushing bachelor’s degrees, U.S. needs more tradespeople

• Placement rates, other data colleges provide consumers are often alternative facts

Herzog Foundation

THE LION

Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty

School Scorecard

117. Hewlett Foundation

• Deeper Learning

118. HigherEd.org Portal

• Free/Low-Cost Competency-Based Education Using Personalized Learning Plans

119. Highlander Institute

119. Indiana University School of Education

• Center for Evaluation & Education Policy
  • Indiana University’s High School Survey of Student Engagement (HSSSE)
    • Students are bored, many skip school, lack adult support

120. Information Technology and innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• The Case for Improving U.S. Computer Science Education

121. Innosight Institute; K-12 Blended Learning (Now the Clayton Christensen Institute)

• The rise of K-12 blended learning
• Profiles of emerging models
• Classifying K-12 blended learning
• Blended-Learning Universe beta

122. Innovation Excellence

• About
  • Online home of the global innovation community, building upon a rapidly-growing network with thousands of members from over 175 countries

123. INSIDE HIGHER ED (IHE)

• Improving the Quality of Education

123. Institute for College Access and Success

• Project on Student Debt

124. Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP)

• Leading with Data: How Senior Institution and System Leaders Use Postsecondary Data to Promote Student Success
• Measuring the Value of a Higher Education

125. Institute For Student Achievement

• Results
  • Developing Mathematical Thinkers: Moving Students from Rote to Rigor

126. Institute for Simulation and Training (IST) @ University of Central Florida (UCF)

• So Much Training, So Little to Show for It

127.  Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL)

• One reason so many kids in Mississippi fail reading tests?
  • 2014-15 Study of Mississippi Teacher Preparation for Early Literacy Instruction

128. Institute of International Education – (IIE)

• Generation Study Abroad

129. International

• Australia
  • Study: One-third of Sydney high schools ‘neither efficient nor effective’
• Finland
  • Children help plan daycare in new curriculum

129. International Association for K-12 Online Learning, The (iNACOL)

• What’s Possible With Personalized Learning?
• Report: Online learning needs quality assurance
• “Measuring Quality from Inputs to Outcomes: Creating Student Learning Performance Metrics and Quality Assurance for Online Schools”
• ‘There’s No Such Thing as Average’: Todd Rose on Brain Science and the Limitations of Standards

130. International Society fo‘There’s No Such Thing as Average’: Todd Rose on Brain Science and the Limitations of Standardsr Technology in Education (ISTE)

• “National Educational Technology Standards“XLX. Ithaka

• Study: Online Learning Outcomes Similar to Classroom Results

131. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

• Teaching & Learning with ICPSR

132. iPASS Initiative –Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success (iPASS)

• Research highlights imperative of higher ed planning, advising reform

133. Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop

• Getting a read on the app Stores; a Market scan and analysis of children’s literacy apps

133. Jobs for the Future

• About
  • Publications and Tools

134. Johns Hopkins University

• Center for Research and Reform in Education (CRRE)
  • Evidence Based Education
• The Coleman Report
  • ICPSR
•  Johns Hopkins Medicine
  • Brain Science Institute
    • Research
• Johns Hopkins School of Education, Chiefs of Change & Tembo
  • Student growth simulator will help states, districts set learning goals under ESSA

135. John William Pope Center

• College Isn’t a Good Learning Environment, Says a Veteran Professor

• Research

136. Journal of Applied Research on Children

• Leveraging University-School District Research Partnerships: Exploring the Longitudinal Effects of an Early Kindergarten Transition Program

136. Kauffman Foundation

• Vision Mission and Approach
  • Education
  • Research
  • Evaluation

137. Kellogg Foundation

137. Kids Hope USA

• About

138. Kresge Foundation

• Kresge awards $550,000 to study effectiveness of basic needs interventions at community colleges

138. Learning House

• Resource Center
• Research Reports 
  • Online Learning at Private Colleges and Universities 2016: A Survey of Chief Academic IOfficers”
  • Online College Students

139. Learning Policy Institute

• Teacher Turnover: Why It Matters and What We Can Do About It

139. Lumina Foundation

• Unintended Consequences of Tuition Discounting
• The Right Signals Initiative
• Connecting Credentials

140. Lynda

• eLearning

141. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• “Online Education: A Catalyst for Higher Education Reforms“
• Nish Sonwalkar
  • Adaptive Learning Channel; and Here
  • Adaptive Learning
• Integrated Learning Initaiative (MITili)

142. Mass Insight Education

• The Turnaround Challenge

143. MATHEMATICA Policy Research

• Chicago Education Research Presentation Series: School Closings in Chicago: Understanding the Impact on Students
• Inside Online Charter Schools
• Online Charter Schools’ Operational and Instructional Practices: Highlights of Findings
• Online Charter Schools Struggle to Engage Their Students

144. MCKINSEY & COMPANY

• How to Scale Personalized Learning
• Using Behavioral Science to Improve the Customer Experience
• Three more reasons why US education is ready for investment
  • K–12: Technology for teachers’ professional development
• Learning Innovation in a Digital Age

145. MIDA Learning Technologies

• Research shows that when students work on projects, they learn more

  • Defined STEM Research Report

146. Miller Center – University of Virginia

• Transformations Affecting Postsecondary Education

147. Mindset Works

• The Science
• Does a growth mindset enable better cognitive functioning in students?
• Growth mindset theory is ‘overplayed’ and could be harmful, geneticist warns

148. Montessori

• American Montessori Society
  • Montessori Organizations:
    • Association Montessori Internationale (AMI)
    • Canadian Council of Montessori Administrators (CCMA)
    • The Indian Montessori Association (IMA)
    • The Institute for Montessori Education (TIME)
    • Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education (MACTE)
    • Montessori Educational Programs International (MEPI)
    • Montessori Europe
    • MontessoriPublic
    • The National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector
      • Research and Dissemination
    • Pan American Montessori Association (PAMS)
    • The Montessori Foundation (IMC)
    • The North American Montessori Teachers Association (NAMTA)
  • Research
    • Brady Education Foundation
      • Montessori Initiative
    • Journal of Montessori Research
    • Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius
      • Chapter 1
    • The Riley Institute at Furman University
      • Landmark Study of Montessori Education
        • Results

148. MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses

• Who will pass? Analyzing learner behaviors in MOOCs

• The emerging pedagogy of MOOCs, the educational design of technology and practices of study

• Are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) pedagogically innovative?

• Understanding Learning and Teaching in MOOCs from the Perspectives of Students and Instructors: A Review of Literature from 2014 to 2016

• HarvardX and MITx: Four Years of Open Online Courses — Fall 2012-Summer 2016

149. National Academic Advising Association (NACADA -Kansas State University

• Research Related
  • Research highlights imperative of higher ed planning, advising reform

150. National Alliance for Public Charter Schools – (National Alliance)

• The Charter Schools Data Dashboard
• A Call to Action to Improve the Quality of Full-Time Virtual Charter Public Schools
  • The Report
• Measuring Up

151. National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE)

152. National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA)

• For Charter Schools, Look Back to Look Ahead
• New Report Recommends Reforms to Address Significant Underperformance by Full-Time Virtual Charter Public Schools

153. National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC)

• Effective Counseling in Schools Increases College Access
• Preparing Students for College: What High Schools Are Doing and How Their Actions Influence Ninth Graders’ College Attitudes, Aspirations and Plans
• NACAC Report Underscores Importance of Predictive Validity Studies
  • The Report
• Research and Knowledge
  • Research highlights imperative of higher ed planning, advising reform

154. National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE)

155.  National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)

• The NACE First-Destination Survey

156. National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA)

• GAO Report Should Trigger Rethink Of Accountability In Higher Education

156. NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education

• Research and Policy Institute
  • Research highlights imperative of higher ed planning, advising reform

157. National Bureau of Economic Research

• Teacher Applicant Hiring and Teacher Performance: Evidence from DC Public Schools

• THE VALUE OF SMARTER TEACHERS: INTERNATIONAL EVIDENCE ON TEACHER COGNITIVE SKILLS AND STUDENT PERFORMANCE

158. National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)

• Raising the Bar for College Admission: North Carolina’s Increase in Minimum Math Course Requirements

159. National Center for Policy Analysis

• The Big Business Profitability of the Nonprofit College Board
• Higher Education and Accrediting Online Courses

160. National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE)

• Tough Choices or Tough Times
• Research
  • Center on International Education Benchmarking 
  • Excellence for All
  • National Institute for School Leadership

161. National Center for Inquiry and Improvement

162. National Center for Innovation in Education (C!E: University of Kentucky)

• Theory of Action
• Implementation Leaders Advisory
• Council of Chief State School Officers
  • Innovation Lab Network
• The Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC)
  • Research and Evaluation

163. National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF) and ConsultEd Strategists

• How Deeper Learning Can Create a New Vision for Teaching
• What Matters Now: A New Compact for Teaching & Learning
  • Publications

164. National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, The (TQ Center) > GTL @ AIR

• ” A Practical Guide to Designing Comprehensive Principal Evaluation Systems “

165. National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)

• Piecing Together the Preparation Preschool Teachers Need
• Learning About Learning: What Every New Teacher Needs to Know
  • The Report
• Running in Place: How New Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises
• Backing the Wrong Horse: The Story of One State’s Ambitious But Disheartening Foray Into Performance Pay
  • The Report
    • Do Masters Degrees Matter?  The answer is NO. There is no positive correlation  between student success outcomes for ALL students and teachers having Masters degrees
• Teacher Prep – Secondary Education

166. National Education Association (NEA)

• As More Schools Look to Personalized Learning, Teaching May Be About to Change

  • Teachers’ Union Faces Backlash Over Publication on Personalized Learning

166. National Education Policy Center (NEPC)

• NEPC Review: Leveraging ESSA to Support Quality-School Growth
  • Leveraging ESSA to Support Quality-School Growth
• Virtual Schools in the U.S., 2013: Politics, Performance, Policy and Research Evidence
• Holding Teacher Preparation Accountable: A Review of Claims and Evidence
• Review of 2016 Brown Center Report on American Education – Part II: Tracking and Advanced Placement
• Assessing the Fiscal Impact of Wisconsin’s Statewide Voucher Program

166. National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA)

• Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education

• Degrees that Matter

167. National Institute for School Leadership (NISL)

• Research Base

168. National Institutes of  Health

• “Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group Report”

169. National Research Center for College and University Admissions (NRCCUA-Also known as encoura)

• Mind the Gap! Targeting Student Concerns During Yield

169. National School Boards Association -NSBA (NBSA Center for Public Education)

• ” Virtual Education Seen Lacking Accountability” says  a report from the National School Boards Association

170.  National Student Clearinghouse

• National Student Clearinghouse Research Center

  • Signature Report 12 Completing College: A National View of Student Attainment Rates – Fall 2010 Cohort

  • Snapshot Report – Certificate and Associate Degree Pathways

    • Report
  • Time to Degree: A National View of the Time Enrolled and Elapsed for Associate and Bachelor’s Degree Earners

171. Nellie Mae Education Foundation

• Making Mastery Work
  • The Reports

172. NerdWallet

• ‘Five-Year Plan’ in College Could Cut Income and Retirement

173. Nesta, the London Knowledge Lab (LKL) and Learning Sciences Research Institute (LSRI), University of Nottingham

• Decoding Learning Report; [ Nesta commissioned the London Knowledge Lab (LKL) and Learning Sciences Research Institute (LSRI), University of Nottingham, to analyse how technology has been used in the UK education systems and lessons from around the world]

173. Neurosciencenews

• Forgetting Does Not Reverse the Learning Process

• Machine Learning Predicts Conduct Disorder in Kids

174.  New America

• Student Loan Defaulters Aren’t Who You Think They Are
• Education policy
• Ed Central

175. New Teacher Center

• New Teacher Center’s mission is to improve student learning by accelerating the effectiveness of new teachers, experienced teachers and school leaders. 

176. New Tech Network

• 12 On-Ramps for Personalized and Competency-Based Learning

• Get the Culture Right: The Most Important New School Factor

177. Nish Sonwalkar (MIT)

• Adaptive Learning Channel; and Here
• Adaptive Learning

178. Nitro College

• Student Debt and Future Earnings

178. NMC Horizon (Higher Education)

• 2012 NMC Horizon Report on higher education
• 2012-2017 Trends and Challenges for AUS Tertiary Education
  • The Report
• 6 technologies to Watch in Higher Ed
• The Higher Education Short List of Emerging Technology
  • NMC Horizon Project Short List
• 2013 NMC Horizon Report on Higher Education
  • The Report
• 2016 NMC Horizon Report on Higher Education

179. NMC Horizon (K-12)

• Report (K-12) 2012 Edition
• Report (K-12) 2011 Edition

180. Northwestern University

• Institute for Policy Research
  • ARE TENURE TRACK PROFESSORS BETTER TEACHERS?

  • Experimental Estimates of the Effects of Online Instruction on Student Learning

  • UNWELCOME GUESTS? THE EFFECTS OF REFUGEES ON THE EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES OF INCUMBENT STUDENTS

    • The Research

181. OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)– PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment)

• Singapore has galloped past Hong Kong in a “livability” listing for the first time mainly due to its improvements in education
• Education at a Glance 2017
• What Motivates High School Students to Want to Be Teachers? The Role of Salary, Working Conditions, and Societal Evaluations About Occupations in a Comparative Perspective

182. One Community

181. One-to-One Institute; Project Red

• One to One Solution: Where Are We Today?

182. Online Learning Consortium (OLC)

• Research and Publications

183. Overdeck Family Foundation

• Areas of Focus
  • Early Impact
  • Exceptional Educators
  • Innovative Schools
  • Inspired Minds
• Advancing the Field of Education Research

184. Partnership for 21st Century Learning (P21)

• About

185. Payscale

• Half of Associate Degree Holders Are Underemployed

186. Pell Institute

• “Indicators of Higher Education Equity in the United States 2016 Historical Trend Report“

187. Penn State

• EdTech Network

188. Pew Research Center

• Lifelong Learning and Technology
• Digital Readiness Gaps
• U.S. students’ academic achievement still lags that of their peers in many other countries
• The Rising Cost of Not Going to College

189. Pokemon Go: Is it for You?

• ISTE DigCit PLN Pokémon Go – Back to School Advice

190. Politico

• Education

191. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

• Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics

192. Project on Academic Success: Indiana University

• Time to Degree: A National View of the Time Enrolled and Elapsed for Associate and Bachelor’s Degree Earners

PsyPost.org

• Reading on a smartphone promotes overactivity in the prefrontal cortex and lowers reading comprehension, study finds

193. Public Agenda

194. Publications

•  The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness by Todd Rose. Copyright ©2016 by L. Todd Rose, published by HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. 
• The Impact of Targeted School Vouchers on Racial Stratification in Louisiana Schools
• “E-learning and the science of instruction”
• Curiosity and time: from not knowing to almost knowing

195. Programme for International Student Assessment – PISA (OECD)

• The Role of Schooling in Perpetuating Educational Inequality: An International Perspective

196. Promethean Education Strategy Group

• Promethean Thinking Deeper Research Paper No. 6: From Learner Voice to Emerging Leaders

197.  Qatar Foundation’s World Innovation Summit for Education (Wise-Qatar)

• Artificial Intelligence In Education: Don’t Ignore It, Harness It!

197.  Rand Corporation

• Rand Education
  • Teachers Matter: Understanding Teachers’ Impact on Student Achievement
  • K-12 Educator Effectiveness
  • Pushing school start times to 8:30 a.m. could add billions to the US economy
    • Details
      • The Study

• Developing Community Schools at Scale

198. Results and Resources Higher Ed and K-12

• Access Resources and Tools to Better Understand Your Schools Student Success Outcomes

199.  Review of Economics and Statistics

• “How the Time of Day Affects Productivity: Evidence from School Schedules“

200. Riley Institute – Furman University

• About
  • ” Committed to nonpartisanship in all it does and to a rhetoric-free, facts-based approach to change”

201. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

• Research, Evaluation and Learning
  • 7eacher Stress and Health

202. Ruffalo Noel Levitz

• Papers and Research

204. SAT

• SAT Suite of Assessments – Annual Report, 2017

203.  School Improvement Network

• Resources
  • Educator Effectiveness System
    • Research

204.Scholarships

• Mesothelioma

204. Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science – AAAS)

• Lectures Aren’t Just Boring, They’re Ineffective, Too, Study Finds

205. Science Daily

• Interactive teaching methods double learning in undergraduate physics class

206. Science Direct

• Similarity effects in online training: Effects with computerized trainer agents

207. Science News

• Teaching methods go from lab to classroom

207. Sense Publishers – For Wisdom and Awareness

• Student Voice, Teacher Action Research and Classroom Improvement

208. Set for College; Preparing Students for Admissions Success

• About

209. Share Fair Nation

• PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT BY EDUCATORS FOR EDUCATORS

210. SIIA: Accelerating Innovation in Technology Data and Media

• SIIA Divisions & Services

  • Public Policy
  • IP Protection
  • Connectiv
  • ETIN
  • FISD
  • SIPA
  • SSD
• SIIA-ASCD-CCSSO Symposium
  •  [Re] Design for Personalized Learning

211.  Sloan Consortium, The; Now OLC

• Blending In: The Extent and Promise of Blended Education in the United States
  • The Report (March 2007)
• “Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States”
  • The Report

212. Speak Up and Project Tomorrow

• “Mapping a Personalized Learning Journey: K-12 Students and Parents Connect the Dots with Digital Learning”, From the Annual Speak Up Survey, which is facilitated by Project Tomorrow.
• Learning in the 21st Century: Digital Experiences and Expectations of Tomorrow’s Teachers
• Text, Twitter, Email, Call—What Do Parents Say About School Communications?

213. Springer Publishing

• Education and Language
  • Learning Environments Research (LER) – An International Journal
• Dynamics of undergraduate student generic problem-solving skills captured by a campus-wide study

214. SRI International

• Education and Learning

215. Stanford University 

• Center for Opportunity and Policy in Education
  • Using Technology to Support At-Risk Students’ Learning
• Center for the Study of Language and Information
  • The Benefits of Interactive Online Characters
• Center for Education Policy Analysis – (CEPA)
  • Racial, socioeconomic, and gender disparities in academic performance and educational attainment
  • Changing Distributions: How Online College Classes Alter Student and Professor Performance
• Graduate School of Education
  • youcubed
    • Rethinking Giftnedness
• Learning Policy Institute
• Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education
  • A Ninja’s Take on Education Policy: Interview With Linda Darling-Hammond
• CREDO – Center for Research on Educational Outcomes at Stanford University
  • Online Charter School Study 2015
  • School Closure Study 2017

216. STAR, School Technology Action Report, by eSchool Media, Inc

• How Current Brain Research can Improve Education

217. Students at the Center Hub (Research Portal)

• About
  • Resources
    •  Student-Centered Learning Research Collaborative
      • Research

218. Students Matter

• Cases

219. Student Success – Meet VAWA and Title IX Education Requirements

• About

220. Student Success, Teacher Success and Education Organization Success

• 1,500+ PINS

221. Student Success Tools

Student Success: 1 of 5

Student Success: 2 of 5

Student Success: 3 of 5

Student Success: 4 of 5

Student Success: 5 of 5

• Educationally Innovative Software: SIS, LMS, LCMS, Research Report, K-12
  • Executive Summary
• Research shows 3 ways going digital improves student performance
  • 1. Improving grades
    • MasteringA&P® educator study reports on implementation results at University of Texas at Tyler
    • Efficacy Study of InQuizitive for American Government
    • The Impact of Connect on Student Success
  • 2. Overall learning improvements
    • Better Engagement, Better Outcomes — MindTap® Proves Its Impact in the Humanities and Social Sciences
    • Increasing Student Learning and Engagement with MindTap® for Economics
    • LaunchPad,  Fall 2015 Analysis
    • LearningCurve: Case Studies
  • 3. Students stay in class
    • Undergraduate Retention and Graduation Rates
    • The Impact of Connect on Student Success
    • Using personalized learning, a developmental math professor increases her course passing rate by 31.8 percentage points
• Study: 75% of teachers use tech daily, 50% have 1:1 programs
  • “Schools need to offer better professional development and ongoing coaching to help teachers shift their pedagogy in the right direction”

222. Student Success Stories

• Elementary Schools:
  • KIPP Public Charter Schools
  • New Tech Network
    •  Culture Change: How 200+ K-12 Schools Have Scaled Systems and Processes 
    • Incremental vs Revolutionary Transformation: How School Innovation Works, the case of New Tech Schools
  • Success Academy Charter Schools
    • Not Without Controversial Methodology

• Secondary Schools:
  • Big Picture Learning
    • Data Tells the Story for Big Picture Learning
  • Can public schools replicate the Mooresville model for digital learning success? Former superintendent Mark Edwards says they can
  • DeKalb County School District (Georgia)
  • High School of the Future
  • KIPP Public Charter Schools
  • New Tech Network
    •  Culture Change: How 200+ K-12 Schools Have Scaled Systems and Processes 
    • Incremental vs Revolutionary Transformation: How School Innovation Works, the case of New Tech Schools
    • Advisory: 22 Ways to Build Relationships for Educational Success
    • How Do We Measure Progress in K-12 Education?
  • Success Academy Charter Schools
    • Not Without Controversial Methodology
  • These are the best city schools no one knows about
  • Thirteen Innovative Schools
    • What They Have in Common
  • Unorthodox approach working for Reynoldsburg schools
  • New study period paying dividends for high school
  • Portland High School Reforms Show Promising Results
  • Failure Is Not An Option
    • How Principals, Teachers, Students and Parents from Ohio’s High-Achieving, High-Poverty Schools Explain Their Success
      • The Report (64 Pages)
  • Leaders to Learn From: 15 Good Ideas
  • Blended-Learning Universe beta
  • CICS West Belden
  • Networks
    • Gates Foundation adjusts K-12 funding priorities
      • CORE Districts
        • About
      • Rural districts band together to promote innovation across schools
        • Beyond Textbooks
        • Place Network Schools

• Higher Education:
  • Fifteen Innovative Universities
    • What They Have in Common
  • Learning: Rethinking the Way College Students Are Taught
  • Learning: Inventing a New Kind of College
  • Learning: The Problem with Lecturing is that very Little Learning Occurs

• Corporate Education and Adult Learners:
  • Performance Support: Pep Boys Adopts Interval-Based Training
  • Conquering Your Fears of Giving Feedback

223. Teachers and Performance Based Pay

• Behind the Headline: The Merit Pay Myth: Why the Conventional Wisdom About Paying Teachers Is Wrong

  • Merit Pay International
    • Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay

224. Teacher Union Reform Network (TURN)

• “Our TURN: Revitalizing Public Education and Strengthening Our Democracy Through the Collective Wisdom of Teachers,”

224. Teach for America and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

• “Contextual Influences on Inquiries into Effective Teaching and their Implications for Improving Student Learning”;  A Roundtable sponsored by Teach for America and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

225. teachthought; WE GROW TEACHERS

• 9 Characteristics Of 21st Century Learning
• 4 Things Innovative Schools Have In Common

226. TED Talks

• Let’s Teach for Mastery – Not test Scores

227.  Telstra

• Personalized Learning – Meeting the Australian Educational Challenge
• THE ROLE OF LEARNING ANALYTICS IN FUTURE EDUCATION MODELS

228. Tembo, Chiefs of Change & Johns Hopkins School of Education  

• Student growth simulator will help states, districts set learning goals under ESSA
  • Student Growth Simulator

229.  TES Global – TES

• Growth mindset theory is ‘overplayed’ and could be harmful, geneticist warns
• Research and Pedagogy

230. Tennessee Star Experiment

• The Tennessee Study of Class Size in the Early School Grades

231. Thalheimer, Will

• Learning Objectives, A Research Inspired Odyssey
• Does eLearning Work?

231. The Chronicle of Higher Education

232. The eLearning Coach – Connie Malamed

• Why is learning transfer so hard?

233. The Foundation for Blended and Online Learning

• Teaching with Technology

234. The Higher Education Systems & Services Consortium  (The HESS Consortium)

233. The Institute for College Access and Success

• Project on Student Debt

234. The Learning Accelerator

235. The Riley Institute at Furman University

• Montessori Education
• New Tech Schools
• S.C. Statewide Education Study

234. Third Way

• Incomplete: The Quality Crisis at America’s Private, Non-Profit Colleges

• The State of American Higher Education Outcomes

235. Times Higher Education

• How Many Hours a Week Should Academics Work?

236. TNTP

• The Widget Effect

236. Top eLearning/EdTech Influencers 2016

237. Traditional Educations Traditional Arguments as to Why Traditional Education Doesn’t Work (They define these as “The Problem”)

• Are Teachers Stalling on Implementing Education Research Because Papers Are “Hard to Read?”
• Class Size
• Collective Bargaining  (Document how this is Positively Correlated to  Advanced Student Success Outcomes)
• Lack of Money
  • Decreases in Government Funding
• Parents Lack of Involvement (The Core Problem is not Parental Involvement; Are we Educating the Parents, or the Students?)
• Poverty
• Student Grit (In a Flawed Teaching Environment, Only the “Best” Survive)
• Teacher Pay
• Tenure (Document how this is Positively Correlated to  Advanced Student Success Outcomes)
• Teachers are Leaving
• Technology (We found out the Hard Way, that Delivering Flawed, One size Fits All Teaching, to Students, Faster, over Whiteboards and Tablets [Technology] DID NOT advance Student Success Outcomes)

The Real Solutions to the Real Problem of Advancing, Effective, Efficient, Consistent, Relevant, Sustained, Student Success Outcomes, that Result in Advanced, Effective, Efficient, Consistent, Relevant, Sustained Student Success, Performance Improvement Outcomes Outcomes

• Accountability for Results and Pay for Performance
• Compliance EdTech
• Degree Guarantee
• Educator Productivity
• 1 in 4 Teachers Miss 10 or More School Days, Analysis Finds
  • Districts Spend over $25 Billion Annually on Teacher Absences
• Educationally Innovative Software
• Education Change Teaching to Learning
• Empowering Students Success
• Follow the Research
• Forgetting Curve and Why it’s Important to Student Success Outcomes
• Improve the Quality of Full-Time Virtual Public Schools
• Online Teaching vs Online Learning
• Pedagogy Ed Tech
• Professional Development
• Public Universities; Who Actually runs Public Universities?
• Research Available, BUT Not Properly Utilized
• Strikes; Strikes Hurt our Kids
• Student Employability
• Student Success Software
• Technology Pedagogy Content Knowledge
• Trustees
• Widget Effect

238. TrainingIndustry.com

• Avoiding the Bright, Shiny Objects and Focusing on Outcomes

239. Training Journal

•  The complexities of learning

239. Transcend Education

• THE Collaborative: What We Learned From Bringing Educators Together to Reimagine School

238. Tyton Partners

• Research highlights imperative of higher ed planning, advising reform

239. University Business

• Magazine, Newsletters, eMail Alerts
  • Colleges opening the gates for successful student outcome

240. University of Brighton

• Research in Education (R.Ed)
  • Randomized control trials in education research

241. University of California

• University California Los Angeles (UCLA)
  • Bjork Learning and Forgetting Lab
    • Research
    • Lost Opportunities
• University California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
  • The Meta Lab
    • Does the raising IQ-raising g distinction explain the fadeout effect?
  • Does the presence of a classmate with emotional/behavioral disabilities link to other students’ absences in kindergarten?
    • The Research
•  University of Southern California (USC)
  • Brain and Creativity Institute
    • Research
      • Emotions Help Steer Students’ Learning, Studies Find
      • Emotions, Learning, and the Brain

242. University of Chicago

• UC Chicago Consortium on School Research

  • The Predictive Power of Ninth-Grade GPA

• UChicago Charter School
• UChicago Impact
• UChicago UTEP
• Urban Education Institute

242. University College Dublin; Geraldine O’Neill and Tim McMahon

• Student-centred learning: What does it mean for students and lecturers?

243. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Education at Illinois
  • Rochelle Gutiérrez

244. University Innovation Alliance

244. University of Kansas

• “The Early Catastrophe: The 30 Million Word Gap by Age 3”
  • Rice.edu post
•  Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experiences of Young American Children
  • Book

245. University of London – Birkbeck

• Institutional Research Online
  • Center for Brain and Cognitive Development
  • Center for Educational Neuroscience
• Birkbeck Knowledge Lab
  • Research
• Center for Cognition, Computation and Modelling (CCCM)
  • Research
• Psychological Sciences – Child Development, Education, Neuroscience and Cognition 
  • Research

246. University of Melbourne

• Professor John Hattie
  • His influential 2008 book Visible Learning: A synthesis of over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement is believed to be the world’s largest evidence-based study into the factors which improve student learning. Involving more than 80 million students from around the world and bringing together 50,000 smaller studies, the study found positive teacher-student interaction is the most important factor in effective teaching.

247. University of Michigan

• Deep sleep critical for visual learning

247. University of Missouri College of Education

• Research

  • Could this new observation method boost behavioral and academic outcomes?

    • IThe Study

      • The Brief Student-Teacher Classroom Interaction Observation: Using Dynamic Indicators of Behaviors in the Classroom to Predict Outcomes and Inform Practice

248. University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA – at Pennsylvania State University)

• Resources
  • Demographic Shifts in Educational Demand and the Rise of Alternative Credentials

249.  University Ventures

• University Ventures
  • Online Education Whitepaper

250.  US Department of Education

• Improving Teacher Prep Building On Innovation
• Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
  • Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
    • Quality Counts 2017 – Report and Rankings
    • December 2015 Progress Report
  • No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
• 7d Dept unveils new ed tech evaluation tool
  • Ed Tech Rapid Cycle Evaluation Coach
    • Apply for a spot in the pilot here.
• Administrators
  • College Accreditation
    • NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY & INTEGRITY HIGHER DUCATION ACT REAUTHORIZATION ACCREDITATION POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS (NACIQI)
• Ed Data Express; Data about Elementary and secondary schools in the US
• Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
  • How well does high school grade point average predict college performance by student urbanicity and timing of college entry? 
  • Small Business Innovation Research 
  • Online credit recovery: Enrollment and passing patterns in Montana Digital Academy courses 
  • Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning
  • The National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE)
    • Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
      • Response to Intervention Falls Short
      • Evaluation of Response to Intervention Practices for Elementary School Reading
    • Evaluation Studies (EVAL)
    • Regional Educational Laboratory Program (REL)
      •  Developmental education and college readiness at the University of Alaska
      • http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/projects/project.asp?projectID=393
    • The What Works Clearinghouse; Evidence for What Works in Education (WWC)
      • Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning
  • National Center for Education Research (NCER)
  • National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
    • Certification Status and Experience of U.S. Public School Teachers: Variations Across Student Subgroups
    • The Condition of Education – 2016
      • 15 higher education revelations from NCES
    • College Navigator
    • Characteristics of Public Elementary and Secondary Schools in the United States:,
      Results From the 2015–16 National Teacher and Principal Survey
    • The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS)
    • High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09) 
    • Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
    • The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
      • The Nations Report Card
      • School Composition and the Black–White Achievement Gap
      • 2015 Mathematics and Reading Assessments
    • Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS)
  • The National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • Enough With the Lecturing
• Offices
  • Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE)
    • Programs/Initiatives
      • Office of Academic Improvement
        • 21st Century Community Learning Centers
      • Office of Early Learning
      • Office of Impact Aid Programs
      • Per Pupil Expenditure Transparency
  • Office of Educational Technology (OET)
    • Expanding Evidence Approaches for Learning in a Digital World   
    • 2016 National Education Technology Plan
    • 2010 National Education Technology Plan
    • DRAFT: Promoting Grit, Tenacity, and Perseverance—Critical Factors for Success in the 21st Century
  • Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development (OPEPD)
    • A Meta-Analysis and Review of  Online Learning Studies, US Department of Education
  • Office of Special Educational and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
    • Response to Intervention Falls Short

251. US Department of Health and Human Services

• Administration for Children & Families
  • Headstart
    • Intergenerational Effects of an Anti-Poverty Program in Early Childhood 

251. Vanderbilt University

• Eliciting explanations: Constraints on when self-explanation aids learning

  • Article
    • Pdf

252. Ventureramp, Jim Brazell, CEO

• Cyber Education: The Role of Technology in Education Transformation
• Jim Brazell  presents why STEM (science, technology, engineering & Math), individual deep, long term, learning, transfer and application, is strategically important and makes a strong case for the need to integrate “college readiness” and “career readiness”
  • Audio ( 60 minutes+)
  • Supporting Power Point (148 slides to visually follow along to the audio)

253. Vibe Effect

• vibeffect’s study in Decision Analytics defines and examines a new concept of thriving in college. Our nationwide survey data shows that a multidimensional concept of thriving is better suited for predicting student achievement in college.

  • Our new data shows that, contrary to popular belief, students from low-income households are likely to thrive in four-year, traditional higher education institutions.

    • Trends And Facts About How Low-Income Students Thrive In Four-Year Traditional Colleges

254. Vignettes Learning

• About Vignettes Learning
  • Vignettes Learning company is an elearning and technology services company. Vignettes Learning assists clients to develop and convert content to online learning, implement Learning Management Systems and learning platforms, and hosts the programs through Vignettes Learning ‘s secure web servers.

255. Waisman Center – UW Madison

• Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior 

256. Wallace Foundation, The

• Wallace Announces Seven Universities to Participate in 47 Million Dollar Initiative
• The School Principal as Leader: Guiding Schools to Better Teaching and Learning
  • The Report
• Districts Matter: Cultivating the Principals Urban Schools Need
• Wallace Foundation to invest $47 million in redesigning principal preparation
• Learning from Summer: Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth
  • Download the Report

257. Walton Family Foundation

• 2016 Annual Report K-12 Education
•  Impact
  • K-12 Education
  • Evaluation and Learning
    • Studies and Research
       Walton foundation puts up $1 billion to boost charters

258. Waterford (PreK through 2nd grade)

• Research

259. Wiley Online Library

• Deliberate Practice and Acquisition of Expert Performance: A General Overview

259. Weiss, Craig: E-Learning 24/7 Blog

• E-Learning 24/7 Blog

Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty

School Scorecard

260. Woz U

• Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak launches his own online tech education platform

260. XQ The Super School Project

• America Needs a New Way of Learning

youcubed

• • Rethinking Giftedness

261. Zuckerberg Initiative

• Learning Heroes

(4) Truly Personalized Learning Technology is not yet Available…

…This is simply not true. Truly personalized learning technology has been available  since 2000, if not sooner.

(5)  I’d like to first try this ‘new revolutionary learning approach’ I read about, or my colleague suggested, to see if I can better my learning outcomes…

…The only new learning approaches that you need to integrate, are the ones that solid learning research validate. The time for additional learning trial and error has come and gone.

‘Learning Styles’ and why you shouldn’t use them,   When it is appropriate to individually deliver instruction over ‘cool technology’

(6) I’m using our current learning technology to create your  recommended blended learning environment…

…Your current ‘learning technology’, more than likely, is either a content management system/knowledge management system (place to store and access one to many word docs, videos, pdf files – not really learning technology) and/or is a traditional one to many teaching delivery system. Either way, neither is a truly personalized learning approach, using truly personalized learning technology.

(7) Individual change is difficult…

…Yes it certainly is, but we are changing all of the time, in other chosen circumstances, to better our strategic outcomes. Aren’t we supposed to be focused on the learner and organizational strategic outcomes?

(8) I have no positive or negative incentive to change…

…Really? Your only motivation to make things better is outside motivation? What happened to your internal desire to make things better, simply because you can? Isn’t our focus on the learner and advanced learning outcomes, consistent with strategic organizational objectives?

(9) I’m not an early adopter. I’ll wait until the new learning approach has been specifically proven to advance learning  in my defined world, possibly with one of my colleagues first…

…You want proven benefits delivered to you this way? Learning is learning. Advanced individual learning effectiveness and efficiency, with critical must know information, is bettered individual learning outcomes in any environment.  There is ample, available, market proof that individual learning outcomes are advanced with this new personalized learning  approach. Why not see for yourself what you are missing, as well as what your learners are missing?

(10) I don’t know how to…

…This is a realistic statement for anything new. You first  need to read and understand everything you can about personalized learning, personal learning environments and the learning theory research that validates/verifies their effectiveness. You will then become an knowledgeable advocate. Learning technology providers, learning consultants and your innovative colleagues, can help you transition from the old teaching model to the new learning model.

Have I missed any other reasons to not change to the new learning model, along with parallel supporting arguments for change?

Please let me know. Tom

http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/810/contexts-and-choices-learning-strategies-in-2012

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Tom McDonald, tsm@centurytel.net; 608-788-5144; Skype: tsmw5752