Education Reform: Newsletter, Issue #20, 10/14/12
Education Reform: Supporting Articles Validating the need for Education Reform
Education Reform – Learning Research: Search 950+ Unique Posts on learning, learning transfer, behavior change, learning technology, sales performance improvement, verbal skills simulation, personalized learning, blended learning and much, much more
Education Reform: Compiled by Tom McDonald, McDonald Sales and Marketing, LLC
1. U.S. Education Spending and Performance vs. The World [INFOGRAPHIC]
2. U.S. schools making little progress in improving student achievement
3. Statistics on American K-12 Public Education
4. John Stossel’s ‘Stupid in America’
5. U.S. Education Statistics Compared to Other Countries
6. U.S. Education Spending Compared to Other Countries
7. If America Spends More Than Most Countries Per Student, Then Why Are Its Schools So Bad?
8. Education in the United States
9. U.S. Can Learn From Other Countries’ Education Systems
10. NEAP Writing Proficiency 2011
11. In 7 Young People Are Not Working Or In School: Measure Of America Study
12. Calif. Poised to Spotlight ELLs Stalled in Schools
13. Students’ science proficiency all over the map
14. ‘Advanced’ Students a Rarity in Science, NAEP Data Show
15. Reading Program Ineffective for Students
17. Boosting the Nation’s Economy by Improving High School Drop Out Rates
18. America cannot afford the stiff price of a dropout nation
19. About the Crisis
21. U.S. Students Ill-Prepared for Working World
22. U.S. Reforms Out of Sync With High-Performing Nations, Report Finds
23. Pressure for school reform is building
24. Learning Technology: Duncan Unveils Digital Promise Center
25. Why Kids Need Schools to Change
26. SAT reading scores hit a four-decade low
27. By the SAT Standard, Less Than Half of College-Bound Seniors Are Ready
28. Deep, Effective, Efficient, Learning, Transfer and Application
- Do Students Know Enough Smart Learning Strategies?
- Study Skills: Research Finds Students Short on Study Savvy
- Studies Find ‘Easy’ Material May Not Be Easy to Learn
- What You Know about Learning Retention Rates is Wrong
- Learning: Inventing a New Kind of College
- Learning: The Problem with Lecturing is that very Little Learning Occurs
- Learning: Rethinking the Way College Students Are Taught
- Studies Find Payoff in ‘Personalizing’ Algebra
- Learning Strategies in 2012
- Problem Based Learning: What and How Do Students Learn?
- Brain Based: Why The Left-Brain Right-Brain Myth Will Probably Never Die
- Learning Styles: The Myth of Learning Styles
- Video Learning: Learning Research on Video Learning
- Working Memory Training: Studies Dispute Benefits of Brain Training
- Learning Research: What’s Learning Research Good For?
- Lectures: Leaving Lectures Behind
- Retrieval Practice: Active Retrieval Promotes Meaningful Learning
- Distributed Practice: Ten Benefits of Testing and Their Applications to Educational Practice
- Learning Theories
- Digital Learning should be Personalized Learning
- Education Technology: Questioning Our Mania for Education Technology
- Learning: The Trouble With Homework
- Cognition
- Cognitive Load: What is Cognitive Load?
- Memory Consolidation
- Memory Principals
- Distributed Practice
- Spaced Repetition
- Differentiated Instruction
- Brain Rules: The Twelve Brain Rules
- Learning Research: Pile on the Learning, Easy on the Technology
- Brain Based Teaching Strategies to Build Executive Function in Students (Part 4 of 7)
- Memory: How Memory Works, an Infographic
- Education Reform: Stop Telling Students to Study for Exams
- Gamification: Why Games Don’t Teach
- Learning Technology: Project RED – Ed-tech group IDs ways to help boost achievement
- Learning Organization: The Importance of Learning in Organizations
- Teacher Coaching: Different Strategies for ‘Teacher Coaching’ in Top Charters
- Adaptive Learning: Personalized Adaptive Learning Systems
- Learning: Teach Them How to Learn
- The Education Week Spotlight on Deeper Learning
- Brain Learn: How Does Our Brain Learn New Information?
- eLearning Guild Research: What Are the Benefits of Social Learning?
- Pedagogy vs. Andragogy
- Learning: Traditional Learning vs. Accelerated Learning
- Brain Based Learning: 12 Design Principles Based on Brain Based Learning Research
- Engage Brain: 5 Ways to Create Interactive Slides
29. US Department of Education
- The High School Graduation Initiative (HSGI)
- The Rural Dropout Problem: An Invisible Achievement Gap
- Why Rural Matters 2011-2012 – The condition of Rural Education in the 50 States
- Dropout Prevention Services and Programs in Public School Districts:2010-11
- Education Reform: U.S. ED Unveils $290 Million in Performance-Pay Grants
30. Chicago Study Finds Mixed Results for AVID Program
31. Tennessee Teachers Find It Hard To Make The Grade
32. Chicago Teachers’ Strike Hurts our Kids
33. iPads and Computer Tablets in the Classroom
34. Study finds Pittsburgh principals in classrooms more often
35. California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE)
36. Beneath Strife in Chicago, a School District’s Financial Tailspin
37. Requests for a Better Educational System:
- College Knowledge Challenge
- Goldman Sachs Essay Contest for Innovation in US Education
- Education Dept. collecting ideas for improving college success
- Won’t Back Down
40. The 5 most educated countries in the world
41. Report: Most Michigan Teachers Ace Reviews
42. Oregon Ed. Official: Results for English-Learners ‘Unacceptable’
43. Education Dept. OKs New Comprehensive Centers for Districts
44. $250M investment aims to boost graduation with ed tech
45. U.S. makes modest gains in graduation rates
46. Door to door for student success
47. Universities Must Adapt or Die in the eLearning World
48. Digital Learning – Report: Federal action needed to expand digital learning
49. Former El Paso school chief gets over 3 years in test scandal
50. Educational Technology: Two Models for Educational Technology
51. Education Reform – Study: Online Learning Outcomes Similar to Classroom Results
52. Eight economic facts about education
53. Record number of Oregon schools need improvement, state says
Related Education Reform and Learning Performance Improvement Information:
Strategic Performance Improvement Consulting:
- Oversaw learning measurement-training evaluation strategy for the 18 Department of Defense Intelligence (DoD) Colleges
- Guided Booz Allen’s Learning & Development (L&D) leadership in developing solutions for improving the delivery of enterprise-wide, self-paced training courses.
- Implemented BOA’s first-ever comprehensive measurement strategy around its learning programs based on business impact, adoption and penetration, critical feedback, and an approach to using benchmarking to compare results.
- Invented and championed Technology Assisted Sampling Tool for Evaluation (TASTE), an innovative tool to enhance productivity
Truly Personalized Learning Technology:
- More Stimulation per Minute of Study
- 300% Improvement in Retained Learning per Hour of Study
- 11% less study time, 22% less test time, and 95% higher test scores
What is an Intelligent Tutoring System?
- More Stimulation per Minute of Study
- 300% Improvement in Retained Learning per Hour of Study
- 11% less study time, 22% less test time, and 95% higher test scores
- Including…How Long does it take to change a Habit?
- Why does Blended Learning Advance Individual Learning and Individual Learning Transfer (Application)?
Truly Personalized Learning Technology:
- What is learning Technology and Why does it Advance Learning in a Teacher Facilitated, Blended Learning Environment?
Two Models for Educational Technology
- One to Many
- One to One
- Which Approach is Research Validated to Advance Individual Learning?
Education and Accelerated Learning:
- What is Accelerated Learning and Why does it work?
- Why is Learning Important?
How to Transfer Training (Learning):
- What does it take to Transfer Learning and why is Learning Transfer Important?
The New Truly Personalized Learning Model with Supporting Research Validation:
- More Stimulation per Minute of Study
- 300% Improvement in Retained Learning per Hour of Study
- 11% less study time, 22% less test time, and 95% higher test scores
Related Sales Skills, Sales Performance and Learning Performance Improvement Information:
Sales Performance Improvement: Interactive Decision Engine
- Sales Presentation Toolset
- Improve retention of your message by up to 38%
- Reduce the time taken to explain complex issues by up to 40%.
- Advance participant persuasion by as much as 43%
- Be perceived as more professional and Develop audience belief
- Sway your audiences beliefs up to 67% more
- Achieve your goal up to 67% of the time vs. 33%..A 100% Increase!
Sales Performance Improvement: Seven Tools:
- (VI). Set More New B2B Sales Appointments:
- Historical Competency Improvement of: 596%
- Historical Training ROI of: 1148%
- For every Training Dollar ‘Loaned’…There is a Client Return of $11.48
- (Completely Based on The Clients Sales Numbers…Pre and Post Training)
Sales Performance Improvement: Learning Roleplay and Transfer:
- More Stimulation per Minute of Study
- 300% Improvement in Retained Learning per Hour of Study
- 11% less study time, 22% less test time, and 95% higher test scores
- “Management reported a 300% increase in sales, within a 6-month period after training”
- “Management reported negotiated contracts that earned the company an extra two million dollars in profit per negotiator over the previous year”.
Sales Performance Improvement: Employee Selection and Employee Development:
- Increase productivity and sales from 20 to 60+%
- Reduce Turnover from 15 to 50+%
Sales Performance Improvement: Integrating Sales Training and Sales Implementation:
- Advance long term, Individual learning, individual learning transfer, individual learning application and individual behavior change up to 300%
Strategic Performance Improvement Consulting:
- Oversaw learning measurement-training evaluation strategy for the 18 Department of Defense Intelligence (DoD) Colleges
- Guided Booz Allen’s Learning & Development (L&D) leadership in developing solutions for improving the delivery of enterprise-wide, self-paced training courses.
- Implemented BOA’s first-ever comprehensive measurement strategy around its learning programs based on business impact, adoption and penetration, critical feedback, and an approach to using benchmarking to compare results.
- Invented and championed Technology Assisted Sampling Tool for Evaluation (TASTE), an innovative tool to enhance productivity
Personalized Learning Technology:
- More Stimulation per Minute of Study
- 300% Improvement in Retained Learning per Hour of Study
- 11% less study time, 22% less test time, and 95% higher test scores
What is an Intelligent Tutoring System?
- More Stimulation per Minute of Study
- 300% Improvement in Retained Learning per Hour of Study
- 11% less study time, 22% less test time, and 95% higher test scores
- Including…How Long does it take to change a Habit?
- Why does Blended Learning Advance Individual Learning and Individual Learning Transfer (Application)?
- What is learning Technology and Why does it Advance Learning in a Teacher Facilitated, Blended Learning Environment?
Two Models for Educational Technology
- One to Many
- One to One
- Which Approach is Research Validated to Advance Individual Learning?
Education and Accelerated Learning:
- What is Accelerated Learning and Why does it work?
- Why is Learning Important?
How to Transfer Training (Learning):
- What does it take to Transfer Learning and why is Learning Transfer Important?
The New Learning Model with Supporting Research Validation:
- More Stimulation per Minute of Study
- 300% Improvement in Retained Learning per Hour of Study
- 11% less study time, 22% less test time, and 95% higher test scores
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Learning Optimized, Behavior Changed, Performance Advanced
My deliverables to you are: (I) Improved Learning Outcomes and Increased Competence; a. Retention to fluency (95% vs. 28%), b. Behavior change through accountable reinforcement, c. Improved application, d. Advanced individual performance and e. Advanced organization performance.
You will ensure that every person reaches true mastery* in the shortest amount of time. Mastery* produces people who have the adaptive reasoning skills required to effectively apply knowledge to new situations.
*Mastery is required where appropriate information application is critical to achieve a desired outcome; For example, Education: K-12, Higher, Corporate, Government; Medical; Medical Continuing Medical Education – Performance Improvement; Safety; Sales Performance; Aviation; Military; Individual Certifications and Individual Continuing Education.
McDonald Sales and Marketing, LLC, Specialties:
Appropriate Application; Behavior Change; eLearning; Employee Selection and Employee Development; Human Capital Management; Individual Performance Improvement; Learning Performance Improvement; Learning Retention and Reinforcement Improvement; Organization Performance Improvement; Workforce Development and Productivity; Verbal Skills Simulation and Reinforcement; Sales Performance Improvement; Web-Based (SaaS/Cloud) Solutions
To Discuss how these Solutions will add value for you, your organization and/or your clients, Affinity/Resale Opportunities, and/or Collaborative Efforts, Please Contact:
Tom McDonald, [email protected]; 608-788-5144; Skype: tsmw5752
