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The Education Reform Challenge Question: “What should we do to create a strong US education system that works for all, that improves student outcomes and enables our country to regain its leadership position in the field of education?

My Submitted, Proposed, Education Reform Solution; Your comments are encouraged

Most ed-tech startups suck! Here’s where they’re going wrong. – Reynol Junco is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

Reimagining Learning: Richard Culatta

Richard Culatta is the Deputy Director of the Office of Educational Technology at the US Department of Education

 

Fixing Schools

Katherine Merseth of the Harvard Grad School of Ed

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Learning Strategies in 2012+

Building Motivation, Instilling Grit: The Necessity of Mastery-Based, Digital Learning

Find out what the experts are suggesting for advanced, individual, deep, long term, learning, transfer and application

Education Reform: Compiled by Tom McDonald, McDonald Sales and Marketing, LLC

87. Teacher Performance Improvement:

• Education Needs More Tempered Radicals
• Beginning K–12 Teacher Characteristics and Preparation by School Type, 2009
• Better Teacher-Candidate Mentoring Targeted
• How to best gauge teacher performance?
• The Two Purposes of Teacher Evaluation
• Tackling Special Education Teacher Evaluation The Council for Exceptional Children’s paper detailing its position on special education teacher evaluation
• Teacher Absence as a Leading Indicator of Student Achievement
• Miami-Dade teachers’ book club a think tank on school reform
• BAR EXAM FOR TEACHERS?
  • AFT – Raising the Bar
  • Bellying up to the Bar – Again
• How Should School Districts Shape Teacher Salary Schedules? Linking School Performance to Pay Structure in Traditional Compensation Schemes
  • The Original Article
• My view: I would trade tenure for better teaching
  • The report, “Great Expectations: Teachers’ Views on Elevating the Teaching Profession,” highlights data from Teach Plus‘ recent national survey of teachers
• Creating A Valid Process For Using Teacher Value-Added Measures
• State Chiefs to Examine Teacher Prep, Licensing
• NEA, AFT Partner To Build Common-Core Tools
• Trusting Teachers with School Success – What Happens When Teachers Call the Shots?
• Comparing the leading classroom observation tools
• Teacher Assessment and Evaluation: The National Education Association’s Framework for Transforming Education Systems to Support Effective Teaching and Improve Student Learning
• Teacher Development and Evaluation: AFT offers recommendations for creating A Continuous Improvement Model for Teacher Development and Evaluation
  • Summary Statement
  • Comprehensive Report
  • Examples from the Field
• California Teachers Association (CTA) Teacher Evaluation Framework
  • CTA Teacher Evaluation Framework
• NEA Priority Schools Campaign
• Rethinking Teacher Evaluation: Leaders Advocate for More Meaningful Measures
• Getting Teacher Development Right
• What the Future Holds for Professional Development
• Learning Technology: Tablets are Good, Content is Better, and Teachers are the Best Educational ICT Investment
• Missouri raises the bar on teacher preparation
• Pacific Teacher PD Improves Student Comprehension, IES Study Finds
  • The study, “Effects of the Pacific CHILD Professional Development Program,”
• A PROGRESS REPORT ON TEACHER EVALUATION
• Lexington Public Schools puts focus on professional learning
• Teacher evaluations changing
• Evidence Based Teachers Network
• 3 New Years Resolutions for Every Teacher
• Deadline nears for teacher evaluation plans
• Strategic Data Project Releases New Findings on LAUSD Teachers
  • Source
  • The Report
• New York Education Reform Commission Recommends Core Changes To Improve School Quality
• Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
  • Assessing-Teaching Improving-Learning
  • Improvement Research
  • Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Receives Funding to Rethink the Carnegie Unit
    • The Credit Hour
    • Cracking the Credit Hour
• Teacher Professional Development: English Language Learners
• Teacher Training on ICT Cannot Be a One-Time Event
• The Secrets of Body Language
• Value-Added Models to Evaluate Teachers: A Cry For Help
  • Esoteric Formulas and Educational Research
• Gates Foundation: Test scores not enough for teacher evaluation
  • The Research
• How Can Teachers Prepare Kids for a Connected World?
  • PLAY
  • Studies
• Teachers Gravitate to Social Networks Tailored for Educators
• Gaining confidence through connectedness
• Assignments Matter: Making the Connections That Help Students Meet Standards
  • Video
• The cost of neutral
• Micro- and Macro-Blogging: 3 Major Differences and Their Benefits to Instruction
• Learning analytics tools aim to boost student retention, outcomes
• Sticky objectives
• Book Review: Teach Beyond Your Reach
• How to build a Professional Learning Network
• Deeper Learning: Why Cross-Curricular Teaching is Essential
• Analyses Find Staffing Changes Could Double Teacher Pay
• Message from the ASCD President Professional Development Must Be Part of Teacher Evaluations
• Education Reform hits bump in teacher evaluation
• Memphis City Schools Selects Teachscape Video Solution to Augment Teacher Effectiveness Initiative
• New teachers getting ready to be graded on classroom work
• Los Angeles teachers agree to student test scores in evaluations
• Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques
• Fixing Schools
• Combined Measures Better at Gauging Teacher Effectiveness, Study Finds
  • Ensuring Fair and Reliable Measures of Effective Teaching
  • Gates Foundation study: We’ve figured out what makes a good teacher
• Why innovation is so hard
• Singing Praise for Formative Assessment
  • Waving the Flag for Formative Assessment
• Tennessee tries innovative approach to boosting student achievement
• Dan Pink: How Teachers Can Sell Love of Learning to Students
• New partnership aims to transform teacher education
• Facilitating Online Communities of Practice – Lessons Learned
  • The Report
• Top 20 Best Books on Coaching and Mentoring
• Taking Back Teaching
• Professional Development Days or Professional Learning Communities for Teachers
• The What Works Clearinghouse; Evidence for What Works in Education
• Ohio Issues Teacher-Prep Data: 1 in 10 Graduates Struggles
• 6 entrepreneurial skills that can make us better educators
• Bill Gates: My Plan to Fix The World’s Biggest Problems
• MENIFEE: Coaching program aids teachers, students
• The School Principal as Leader: Guiding Schools to Better Teaching and Learning
• Bill Gates: Invest in better teaching
• New pathways for teachers, new promises for students: A vision for developing excellent teachers
• Create Your Own Professional Learning Network
• Experienced Teachers Reflect on Their First Year: A Follow Up
• Governor Issues Ultimatum in Teacher-Evaluation Fight
• 20 Tips On How To Work With Students Who Have a Hard Time Collaborating
• In Pittsburgh, Gates testing ways to give teacher quick feedback
• Study seeks more effective teacher development
• Teachers need better training
  • The Report
• Making Sense of Teacher Professional Development
• Why Educators’ Wages Must Be Revamped Now
• Teacher Professional Development in Crisis: Providing Teachers the Learning They Want and Need
• The New Ed-Tech Leader Models by Digital Example
• Reclaiming the ‘Art and Science’ of Teaching
• Professional Development: Whose Job Is It?
• Overhaul of Teacher-Prep Standards Targets Recruitment, Performance
• Review of Two Culminating Reports from the MET Project
• Are Teachers of Tomorrow Prepared to Use Innovative Tech?
• Grading the teachers: Performance to be tied to student achievement
• In one California school district, teachers help teachers get better
• School Turnarounds, Teacher Training Next ‘Mission’ for Louisiana
• NM House OKs budget with merit pay for teachers
• Learning in the 21st Century: Digital Experiences and Expectations of Tomorrow’s Teachers
• AFT Moves Forward with Bar Exam for Teacher Candidates
• How to prepare for Common Core testing—and why current teacher evaluation systems won’t help
• How to Really Measure Schools
• The Science of Learning
• Making Teacher Observation Matter
• Class Size or Quality Teachers
• Cultivating Effective Teachers Through Evaluation and Support: A Guide for Illinois Policymakers and Educational Leaders
• Finding a New Way: Leveraging Teacher Leadership to Meet Unprecedented Demands
• Teacher-Prep Programs Zero In on Effective ‘Practice’
• What makes a good teacher preparation program?
• Bill Gates: A fairer way to evaluate teachers
• Op-Ed: Rookie Teachers Need Way More Support
• Quantifying Teacher Effectiveness
• The Teachers versus The Corporate Machines?

88. Success Stories:

• Schools (Grades K-8):
  • What Project-Based Learning Is — and What It Isn’t
  • Primary school league tables 2012: Faith schools account for six out of 10 top-scoring primaries
  • Minn. Superintendent Pioneered ELL Reforms
  • Veteran Educator Turns Around Cincinnati Schools
  • From Digital Doubter to Tech Guru
  • Individualized program showing signs of success in West Allis-West Milwaukee schools
  • College ‘E-Advisers’ Show Promise for K-12 Schools
  • Three School Districts To Create Gifted and Talented Academies

• Secondary Schools (Grades 9-12):
  • 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)
  • Math Program in Lake Wales Helps Students, Teachers
  • Five Things That Changed At My School When We Adopted A Competency-Based Model
  • Blended learning: Teachers plus computers equal success
  • Senior Mentors, Not Bonuses, Boost College Enrollment, Study Finds
  • I’ve got 99 problems, but a test ain’t one
  • Internships Help Students Prepare for Workplace
  • The Transformation Say Yes Brought to Syracuse
  • Strengthening High School Teaching and Learning in New Hampshire’s Competency-Based System
  • Minn. Superintendent Pioneered ELL Reforms
  • Leaders to Learn From: 15 Good Ideas
  • Blended-Learning Universe beta
  • Boston Leader Connects Parents to Learning
  • Texas District Goes Door to Door to Find Dropouts
  • How a flipped classroom flipped a student’s perspective
  • Five habits of great students: Lessons from top-ranked STEM school
  • College ‘E-Advisers’ Show Promise for K-12 Schools

• Higher Education:
  • 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
  • How to Not Teach Physics
  • Liberal Arts Colleges Forced to Evolve With Market
  • A focus on skills increasingly links higher education with employment
  • Harnessing Campuswide Data for Student Success
  • Senior Mentors, Not Bonuses, Boost College Enrollment, Study Finds
  • Near-Term Outlook Is Bleak for All of Higher Education, Moody’s Says

• Corporate Education and Adult Learners:

• Performance Support: Pep Boys Adopts Interval-Based Training
• Conquering Your Fears of Giving Feedback

89. Math Exit Exam, GRAD, Causing Division at Minnesota Schools

90. Education Department Proposes Changes for Investing in Innovation

91. Principal and other Leader Performance Improvement

• Rethinking Principal Evaluation NAESP/NASSP/Johns Hopkins University/American Institute for research
• Evaluating Principals Through Test Scores: Harder Than You’d Think
• Bridging the New Digital Divide
• Evidence Based Teachers Network
• The Secrets of Body Language
• The principal-leader checklist
• The cost of neutral
• Learning analytics tools aim to boost student retention, outcomes
• Sticky objectives
• Why innovation is so hard
• Singing Praise for Formative Assessment
  • Waving the Flag for Formative Assessment
• Dan Pink: How Teachers Can Sell Love of Learning to Students
• Moving Education Forward: It Starts With School Leaders
• The What Works Clearinghouse; Evidence for What Works in Education
• Hawaii Principals To Be Evaluated on Student Growth
• The School Principal as Leader: Guiding Schools to Better Teaching and Learning
• Create Your Own Professional Learning Network
• Meet the winners of our 2013 Tech-Savvy Superintendent Awards
• States Lack Data on Principals, Study Says
  • The Study
• The New Ed-Tech Leader Models by Digital Example
• Professional Development: Whose Job Is It?
• Overhaul of Teacher-Prep Standards Targets Recruitment, Performance
• Are Teachers of Tomorrow Prepared to Use Innovative Tech?
• Coming soon: A national superintendent certification program
• “Operating in the Dark”: Principal Preparation Reform
• ‘Good to Great’ author: How to have great schools
• New report shows how to cultivate great principals
  • Districts Matter: Cultivating the Principals Urban Schools Need
• Districts Tying Principal Reviews to Test Scores
• Leadership in Education Requires Walking a Mile in Students’ Shoes
• ASCD Special Report: The challenges facing principals (Part I)
• Claims on Mayoral Governance Don’t Stand Up to Scrutiny
• School principals share keys to success

92. U.S. Senate Subcommittee Hears Testimony on School-to-Prison Pipeline

93. 5 Ways Technology Will Impact Higher Ed in 2013

94. K-12, Higher Education Unite to Align Learning

95. How to promote literacy skills in the digital age

• “Pioneering Literacy in the Digital Wild West.”

96. Common Core

• ASCD Special Report: Common Core — Now what?
• Reading Across the Content Areas
• New educational standards up the ante in English and math
• Educators Tout IB’s Links to Common Core
• Consortium Releases Technology Guidelines for Common Core Tests
• Common Core State Standards: A Good Fit for Gifted Education?
• The Real Issue Isn’t Common Core; It’s Common Implementation
• Arizona’s public schools facing tougher standards
• What English classes should look like in Common Core era
• New guidance helps school leaders implement Common Core standards
  • New Guides Help School Leaders Support Common Core State Standards Implementation
• Learning analytics tools aim to boost student retention, outcomes
• Deeper Learning: Why Cross-Curricular Teaching is Essential
• Diving Into How Students Learn Best
• Common Assessments Hold Promise, Face Challenges, Study Finds
• Let History Not Repeat Itself: Overcoming Obstacles to the Common Core’s Success
  • The Full Report
• Response: Best Ways to Prepare Our Students for CCSS in Language Arts
• Another bite at the common core debate
• Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques
• New website unpacks the Common Core standards for educators, parents
  • Scholastic.com/Common Core
• Three Districts Test Model Common-Core Unit for ELLs
• Singing Praise for Formative Assessment
  • Waving the Flag for Formative Assessment
• Dan Pink: How Teachers Can Sell Love of Learning to Students
• Are you part of the Common Core Conversation?
• Facilitating Online Communities of Practice – Lessons Learned
  • The Report
• Top 20 Best Books on Coaching and Mentoring
• The What Works Clearinghouse; Evidence for What Works in Education
• What Are School Boards Asking About Common Core?
• ASCD The Whole Child Newsletter
• Process the Common Core
  • Process the Common Core 1
  • Process the Common Core 11
  • Process the Common Core 111
• Strengthening High School Teaching and Learning in New Hampshire’s Competency-Based System
• D181 considers raising academic bar for all students
• Three Districts Test Model Common-Core Unit for ELLs
• For Libraries, the Common Core Presents Extraordinary Opportunity
• Students Must Learn More Words, Say Studies
• New ed-tech bill supports digital learning, Common Core
• Are Teachers of Tomorrow Prepared to Use Innovative Tech?
• Using Teacher Evaluation Reform and Professional Development to Support Common Core Assessments
• Math and the Common Core: New Spotlights from Education Week
• How to prepare for Common Core testing—and why current teacher evaluation systems won’t help
• Issue Brief –Common Core Implementation
• Download New Common-Core Spotlights for Free
• How to train students’ brains for the Common Core

97. ‘Flipped Classrooms’, Khan Academy and Blended Learning: (Web categories with multiple posts; lower left, page bottoms, click ‘older entries’ for additional posts)

• What Is A Flipped Classroom?
• Use Technology to Upend Traditional Classrooms
• ‘Flipping’ classrooms: Does it make sense?
• 16 Flipped Classrooms From Around The World
• The truth about flipped learning
• Five Questions to Ask Before Flipping a Lesson
• Flipped classrooms: Let’s change the discussion
• The Flip: End of a Love Affair
• The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture
  • The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture for Tinkering and Maker Education
• More college instructors are ‘flipping’ the way they teach
• Flipped 3.0
• The Flipped Classroom Infographic
• The difference between live and taped lectures
• Facilitating Online Communities of Practice – Lessons Learned
  • The Report
• Top 20 Best Books on Coaching and Mentoring
• Be Actively Passive: 3 Strategies to Be Successful in Flipped Learning Environments
• Segerstrom High among those flipping homework model
• Four steps to flipping the classroom
• 20 Tips On How To Work With Students Who Have a Hard Time Collaborating
• How a flipped classroom flipped a student’s perspective
• What to consider when flipping the K-12 classroom
• The Flipped Corporate Class?
• University establishes flipped learning training center for faculty

• Khan Academy
  • The difference between live and taped lectures
  • Reinventing Education: Sal Khan, Peter Norvig, and Sebastian Thurn
  • Khan Academy Lite Allows Offline Access to Materials

• Blended Learning
  • The Definition Of Blended Learning
    • The Sloan Consortium:
      • Blending In: The Extent and Promise of Blended Education in the United States
        • The Report
  • Back to Basics with Blended Learning
  • Blended Learning Is Better than Instructor-led or Online Learning Alone
  • Ready to Implement Blended Learning?
    • “The Blended Learning Implementation Guide”
  • Infographic: How to Implement Blended Learning
  • Innosight Institute; K-12 Blended Learning
    • The rise of K-12 blended learning
    • Profiles of emerging models
    • Classifying K-12 blended learning
    • Blended-Learning Universe beta
  • Research Study with Development Benchmarks for Large-Scale, Blended Learning Projects  NEW 2013

98. Special Education:

• Special Education: A Delicate Balance Between Educating & Enabling
  • Meeting Their Needs: A Guide to Individualized Education Plans
    • Teach.com
      • A Guide to the Individualized Education Program (ed.gov)
• Study Questions Benefits of Inclusion for Autism
• Neurodiversity in the Classroom: Strength-Based Strategies to Help Students with Special Needs Succeed in School and Life
• California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE)
• Study Questions Benefits of Inclusion for Autism
• The Year in Autism: Top Research Advances of 2012
• Strength-Based Learning Strategies for Special Needs Students
• Summer-born children being wrongly classed as having special needs
• 17 Ways to Teach Vocabulary Skills to Students with Special Needs

99. Learning Software & Learning Technology

• Institute for Research on Learning Technologies
• Most ed-tech startups suck! Here’s where they’re going wrong. – Reynol Junco is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
• TPACK 101: This video podcast describes the importance of integrating technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge into classrooms (TPACK)
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) – A: Using Al to improve Training Performance and ROI
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) – B
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) – C
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) – D
• Truly Personalized, 1 to 1, Long Term, Learning, PI Software, Technology
• Adaptive Learning: Personalized Adaptive Learning Systems
• Ten Technology Trends to Watch in 2013
  • Learning Strategies in 2012
• Long Term, Deep, Learning, Transfer & Application
  • 10 Critical Components that Guarantee Learning will Stick (Transfer)
• Educational Technology: Two Models for Educational Technology
• iPads and Computer Tablets in the Classroom
• Technology as “Hamburger Helper”
• Innovative Technology Doesn’t Mean Instructionally Innovative
• Education Reform: If We Just Give Kids iPads, They’ll Learn More, Right?
• Some technology schools should stop buying TODAY
• Learning Research: Pile on the Learning, Easy on the Technology
• New online community shares ed-tech best practices
• Learning Technologies to Watch in Higher Ed
• Here’s a Better Way to Remember Things
• Education Technology: Questioning Our Mania for Education Technology
• How proper ed-tech implementation can transform learning
• Learning Technology: Tablets are Good, Content is Better, and Teachers are the Best Educational ICT Investment
• Bridging the New Digital Divide
• Expanding Evidence Approaches for Learning in a Digital World
  • The Report

• 2011 US Educational Technology Industry Market: PreK-12
  • The Executive Summary
• Top Education Technology Tools Q3, Q4 2012
  • Truly Personalized, 1 to 1, Long Term, Learning, PI Software, Technology
• $250M investment aims to boost graduation with ed tech
• Education Reform – Study: Online Learning Outcomes Similar to Classroom Results
• 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)
• MIT innovation could humanize online education programs
• Federal Effort Aims to Transform Learning Technologies
  • Cyberlearning: Transforming Education
  • National Science Foundation
• Technology without Supports: Like Cotton Candy for Breakfast
• Four key parts of successful online education programs
• What Districts Should Know About BYOD and Digital Learning
• 12 Twitter Tips for the Tenderfoot
• How to sustain technology funding in schools
• Become a Tech Savvy Teacher by 2014: A 12-Month Plan
• Are E-Readers on Their Way Out? Already?
• Here Comes 2013: The Big Themes in Learning
• Teachers get new teaching tool from state
• Specialty Classroom Technologies – A Special Report
• iPad Scotland Evaluation Study
  • The Research
• Other countries facing common ed-tech struggles
• Learning analytics tools aim to boost student retention, outcomes
• The Higher Education Short List of Emerging Technology
  • NMC Horizon Project Short List
• The Kenya School Report – Resources
• 25 educational video sites
• 200 Free Kids Educational Resources: Video Lessons, Apps, Books, Websites & More
• An Introduction to Technology Integration
• How Digital Learning Contributes to Deeper Learning
• Closing the Gap Between Educators and Entrepreneurs
• How to manage barriers to online education programs
• What does 2013 hold for technology in schools?
• What is the Tin Can API?
• Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques
• Reimagining Learning: Richard Culatta at TEDxBeaconStreet
• Singing Praise for Formative Assessment
  • Waving the Flag for Formative Assessment
• IMS Global Standards Provide a Foundation for Integration Between McGraw-Hill Content and Most Course Management System Providers
• Digital Learning Day: Free resources, White House speaker
• Facilitating Online Communities of Practice – Lessons Learned
  • The Report
• Top 20 Best Books on Coaching and Mentoring
• Top higher-ed tech trends for 2013
  • Infographic
• Babson Survey from the Sloan Consortium “Class Differences Online Education in the United States, 2010”
  • The Survey Results
• Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States
• Why the time to “disrupt class” is now
• Teachers Predict Positive Trends in Education Technology
• Undergraduate Students and Technology (Infographic)
• The New Intelligence
• Meet the winners of our 2013 Tech-Savvy Superintendent Awards
• How The 10 Most Innovative Colleges Use Technology
• The Problem With the School of One
• Technology integration by design
• ‘Big Three’ Publishers Rethink K-12 Strategies
• Aspiring teachers ill-prepared to use ed tech effectively
• From Digital Doubter to Tech Guru
• Storyboarding in the Software Design Process
• Preparing our students for Web 3.0 learning
• Technology Integration Research Review
• Individualized program showing signs of success in West Allis-West Milwaukee schools
• What Is Successful Technology Integration?
• Are Teachers of Tomorrow Prepared to Use Innovative Tech?
• 14 recommendations for taming the ‘wild, wild West’ of ed tech
• K u r t S q u i r e ‘ s H o m e p a g e
• Technology, Transparency & MOOCs
• Top 5 Ways the British Are Winning the Edtech Export War
• 5 Emerging Technology Categories that Exist Across Horizon Reports
• Emerging Education Technology
• Using technology to shape the future of executive education — Peter Hirst
• How an LMS can help with digital content integration
• Don’t plan for technology; plan for learning
• Beyond Clickers: Three Companies Taking Student Response Systems to the Next Level
• Technology in Education: Before You Make a Purchase, Make a Plan
• The Guerilla Technologist Lives On!
• Ed Tech and the Establishment
• The Do’s and Don’ts of Picking Technology for Schools

100. The MetaData Initiative

• Potent Alphabet Soup: How SLI, LR and LRMI Will Shape Education Technology Content
  • Learning Resource Metadata Initiative, Learning Registry and Shared Learning Infrastructure
• Expanding Evidence Approaches for Learning in a Digital World
  • The Report
• Strategic Data Project Releases New Findings on LAUSD Teachers
  • Source
  • The Report
• Nine templates to help educators leverage school data
• Value-Added Models to Evaluate Teachers: A Cry For Help
  • Esoteric Formulas and Educational Research
• Harnessing Campuswide Data for Student Success
• Discovering the Data Opportunity
• Schoology bets $250k on open education data challenge
• Forum Guide to Taking Action with Education Data
• The New Intelligence
• An Interview with Sean Devine on CourseSmart Analytics
• How Can Data Mining & Analytics Enhance Education? (An Infographic)
• David Brooks on Data: What It Means for Education
• Preparing our students for Web 3.0 learning
• Gates/Carnegie funds to unify e-learning services
• Wash. college to use web data to learn about its students
• New development could help colleges improve student retention
• Interactive Learning Expected To Grow, Embrace Big Data
• Data Mining Education: The Key Things To Know About
• Using Data to Focus Instructional Improvement
• What’s to be Done about Big Data?
• “Measuring Quality from Inputs to Outcomes: Creating Student Learning Performance Metrics and Quality Assurance for Online Schools”
• Big Data Is The Steam Engine Of Our Time
• How three districts are tracking student data
• Storage of Big Data Requires Both Planning and Policy

101. Keep it in the family: Home schooling is growing ever faster

102. Science

• NATIONAL CENTER FOR CASE STUDY TEACHING IN SCIENCE
• Science Standards Require a Teacher-Learning Rethink
• Students’ science proficiency all over the map
• ‘Advanced’ Students a Rarity in Science, NAEP Data Show
• Learned! Next Generation Science Standards
  • NGSS
• Students Who Struggle Early Rarely Catch Up, Study Says
• http://blogs.2elearning.com/2011/04/top-20-trends-in-enterprise-education/
• National Science Foundation
• When is Homework Worth the Time?: Evaluating the Association Between Homework and Achievement in High School Science and Math
  • Study: doesn’t improve grades, may help with standardized tests
• Course hooks students’ interest with hands-on, ‘real world’ lab work
• National science standards likely to raise ‘ruckus’

103. Math

• Studies Find Payoff in ‘Personalizing’ Algebra
• Motivation, Not IQ, Matters Most for Learning New Math Skills
  • The Research
• Math Exit Exam, GRAD, Causing Division at Minnesota Schools
• Chicago Study Finds Mixed Results for AVID Program
• California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE)
• Va. adopts 6-year plan to close math achievement gap
• Ed. Dept. Analysis Paints Mixed Picture of SIG Program
• Students Who Struggle Early Rarely Catch Up, Study Says
• Next step for MOOCs: Helping with remedial math
• http://blogs.2elearning.com/2011/04/top-20-trends-in-enterprise-education/
• Math Program in Lake Wales Helps Students, Teachers
• When is Homework Worth the Time?: Evaluating the Association Between Homework and Achievement in High School Science and Math
  • Study: doesn’t improve grades, may help with standardized tests
• A double dose of algebra improves math and verbal skills as well as college enrollment
• Response: Several Ways to Become Better at Teaching Math
  • Dan Meyer on Real-World Math
• Number Sense, Not Counting Skills, Predicts Math Ability, Says Study
  • The Study: Adolescents’ Functional Numeracy Is Predicted by Their School Entry Number System Knowledge
• From Digital Doubter to Tech Guru

104. English Language Arts

• Reading Program Ineffective for Students
• NEAP Writing Proficiency 2011
• SAT reading scores hit a four-decade low
• Chicago Study Finds Mixed Results for AVID Program
• California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE)
• Ed. Dept. Analysis Paints Mixed Picture of SIG Program
• Illiteracy In America: Reading, Writing, And Unemployment
• NAEP Data on Vocabulary Achievement Show Same Gaps
• Students Who Struggle Early Rarely Catch Up, Study Says
• How to promote literacy skills in the digital age
• How do Children learn to read silently?
• 2009 NAEP Reading Framework
• Vocabulary Results from the 2009 and 2011 NAEP Reading Assessments
• Parent Involvement in Early Literacy
• Minn. Superintendent Pioneered ELL Reforms
• Why Learning by the end of third Grade Matters
  • Executive Summary
  • The Full Report
• More states push retention of struggling readers
• Students Must Learn More Words, Say Studies
• 17 Ways to Teach Vocabulary Skills to Students with Special Needs
• Affirmation exercises shown to close achievement gap for Latino students

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