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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?

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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

 

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

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
• Innovation Education: Study Questions Whether ‘i3′ Found Innovation
• Forum Guide to Taking Action with Education Data
• Digital Learning Day: Free resources, White House speaker
• Ed. Dept. Raises Evidence, Research Ante in Grant Awards
  • The What Works Clearinghouse; Evidence for What Works in Education
• Education Department Releases New Guidelines on ESEA Flexibility
• It’s Official! US Department of Education Approves First College to Ditch the Credit Hour
• A Nation at Risk: Where Are We Now?
• It’s Time to Create School Systems that Learn

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
  • Gates Foundation Supports College Readiness Apps
• Goldman Sachs Essay Contest for Innovation in US Education
• Education Dept. collecting ideas for improving college success

38. Movies:

• Waiting For Superman

• Stuck in a ‘Rubber Room’: New York City Teachers and Your Tax Dollars
• The Cartel
  • The Crisis
  • The Trailer
  • The Roadshow

• The Parent Trigger

• The Parent Power Index
• Won’t Back Down
  • Review, Won’t Back Down, The Movie
  • WBD Toolkit
• ‘Parent Trigger’ Petition Targets Los Angeles School
• Historic education reform ‘parent trigger’ wins in Los Angeles, deals blow to teachers union
• More States Consider ‘Parent Trigger’ Laws

39. The 10 most educated countries in the world

40. Report: Most Michigan Teachers Ace Reviews

41. Education Dept. OKs New Comprehensive Centers for Districts

42. $250M investment aims to boost graduation with ed tech

43. U.S. makes modest gains in graduation rates

44. Door to door for student success

45. Universities Must Adapt or Die in the eLearning World

46. Digital Learning – Report: Federal action needed to expand digital learning

47. Former El Paso school chief gets over 3 years in test scandal

48. Educational Technology: Two Models for Educational Technology

49. Education Reform – Study: Online Learning Outcomes Similar to Classroom Results

50. Eight economic facts about education

• The Hamilton Project

51. Report: Some Oregon schools improve, others persist in failure

52. Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking National Education Policy Center

53. ONLINE SCHOOLS ENROLL THOUSANDS

54. We Need to Disrupt Education, Now

55. Education Reform: Reading Program Ineffective for Students

56. Va. adopts 6-year plan to close math achievement gap

57. Social Academy for self learners aims to Revolutionize Education

58. Pittsburgh schools facing major budget crisis

59. Bill Gates On Why American Colleges Have To Change

60. North Carolina Virtual Public School – Raleigh

61. Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity ( 13,315,018+Views)

62. The most educated nations of the world

63. Converge: 2012 Digital yearbook

64. Ed. Dept. Analysis Paints Mixed Picture of SIG Program

65. “The Nation’s Schools Are Stepping Up to Higher Standards,” (Alliance for Excellent Education; November 2012)

66. School Reform for Realists

67. Arthur Levine: The Suburban Education Gap

68. Digital Promise.org

69. Higher Education: Balancing Integrity, Corporate America And The Global Dimension

70. Illiteracy In America: Reading, Writing, And Unemployment

71. Study Questions Benefits of Inclusion for Autism

72. Data for Action 2012: Focus on People to Change Data Culture

• Data for Action 2012: Focus on People to Change Data Culture.pdf

73. New Graduation Rate Data Show Large Achievement Gaps

• State by State Data

74. Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching

75. Report Finds Economic Success Hinges on Education Equity

• Inseparable Imperatives: Equity in Education and the Future of the American Economy

76. Best Education In The World: Finland, South Korea Top Country Rankings, U.S. Rated Average

• The Learning Curve: Lessons in Country Performance in Education (Pearson 2012 )
• Achievement Growth: International and U.S. State Trends in Student Performance (Harvard, July 2012)
• Why Finland’s Unorthodox Education System Is The Best In The World

77. American Universities Represent Declining Value for Money to their Students

78. Study: More Churn at the Top in Large Districts

79. NAEP Data on Vocabulary Achievement Show Same Gaps

• edWeek Article

80. Students Who Struggle Early Rarely Catch Up, Study Says

81. MOOC’s (Massive Open Online Courses)

• 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
• Next step for MOOCs: Helping with remedial math
• The Big Three, at a Glance
• Experiencing an edX course
• Confessions of a MOOC-her
• What I’m Learning from Harvard
  • A MOOC story, Part 1
  • A MOOC story, Part 2
  • A MOOC story, Part 3
  • A MOOC story, Part 4
• How to compare MOOC vendors
• Why MOOCs Will Not Save Universities
• Are MOOCs Really Reinventing Universities?
  • “The Coursera model doesn’t create a learning community; it creates a crowd.”
• MITOPENCOURSEWARE
  • edX
• Open University Launches British MOOC Platform to Rival US Providers
• Pondering the future of MOOCs: What will they ultimately achieve?
• Knollop is your portal to discover, review and follow thousands of online learning materials in any subject from Coursera, Edx, Udacity, Udemy, and top universities.
• Falling in the Degree Trap
• Class2Go, Stanford’s newest (and open source) MOOC platform
• Entrepreneurship in Education (“Ed Startup 101” for short)
• The Year of the MOOC
• Categorization of MOOC courses
• MIT innovation could humanize online education programs
• How really relevant and practical are Open Educational Resources?: A case for a little humility about the potential
• Online Courses Look for a Business Model
• The tyranny of distance
• Online, on-trend and on a roll
• World Education University
• The Rise and History of MOOCs – Infographic and Prezi Presentation
• Coursera and Universities to Offer ‘Verified Certificates’ to Extend Credential Options for Students
• The End of the University as We Know It
• Connectivism in Practice — How to Organize a MOOC
• How Free Online Courses Are Changing Traditional Education
• E-learning and Digital Cultures, a MOOC course
• 650 Free Online Courses from Top Universities
• Governor Jerry Brown, Udacity Announce Pilot Program for $150 Classes
• Catching Cheaters on Open Online Courses
• edX in the Community College: The MassBay Experience
• The Crisis in Higher Education
  • Will Richardson: Grade MOOCs On More Than A Written Test
• New eLearning network gives students more choices
• Why MOOCs are like Farmville
• MOOCs Move Forward
• Multinational MOOCs
• MOOC Ancestor: Still Looking for Quality Teaching
• Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques
• MOOCs for Credit
• Public Universities to Offer Free Online Classes for Credit
• MOOCs: Free Education or Market Maturation?
  • On-line education and MOOCs
• College Degree, No Class Time Required
• To MOOC or not to MOOC
• MOOCs and the Meta Campus: Propelling the Future of Higher Education
• Facilitating Online Communities of Practice – Lessons Learned
  • The Report
• Top 20 Best Books on Coaching and Mentoring
• “Irrational Exuberance”: The Case of the MOOCs
• Revolution Hits the Universities
• Hype vs. Hope: San Jose State + Udacity vs. Linn State Technical College
• A new business model for MOOCs: Gateway to degree programs
• Higher Education Predictions for 2013
• The week university (as we know it) ended
• Inequality in American Education Will Not Be Solved Online
• Early MOOC Takes A Different Path
• Adaptive MOOCs: Dr. Nish Sonwalkar and Prof. Anant Agarwal Keynote
• Massive Open Online Courses: Free Learning For Everyone
• What is a MOOC?
• MOOC Mess
• Free Course, Inexpensive Exam
• The Pro’s and Con’s of Connected Learning: Initial Observations in the #etMOOC
• Online learning goes official as five Coursera courses get approved by the American Council on Education
• The Internet will not ruin college
• Curbing The Cost Of College: Coursera Wins Approval To Offer Online Courses For Credit For Under $200
• Your Massively Open Offline College Is Broken
• Virtual Educators Critique Value of MOOCs for K-12
• UC Irvine professor stops teaching online course in dispute
• Beyond the Buzz, Where Are MOOCs Really Going?
• The Trouble With Online College
• Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach; Duke University’s First MOOC
• New edX universities announced
• Universities Abroad Join Partnerships on the Web
• Online Courses Could Widen Achievement Gaps Among Students
• Exploring the ‘dark side’ of MOOCs
• Reporter tries a MOOC
• Technology, Transparency & MOOCs
• The Professors’ Big Stage
• Opinion: The unquestioned assumption of online education
• Learning How to Teach
• MOOCs R Us
• Moocs may cut out recruitment middle man
• Emerging Student Patterns in MOOCs: A Graphical View
• The End of History and The Last MOOCs
• Digital learning MOOC now open to school leaders
• MOOCs of Hazard Will online education dampen the college experience? Yes. Will it be worth it? Well…
• Colleges will soon have free access to the edX platform
• MOOCs and Learning in Las Vegas
• New MOOC Provider Says It Fosters Peer Interaction
• Adding Collaboration to Massive Online Courses
• MOOCs: taxonomy of 8 types of MOOC
• MOOC Mania: Debunking the hype around massive open online courses
• How was it? The UK’s first Coursera Moocs assessed
• “It could not be worse than what we do face to face.”
• MOOCs, Group Work, and Instructional Design
• TED Talk: The 100 000 Student Classroom
• MOOCs and the Quality Question
  
• Why Some Colleges Are Saying No to MOOC Deals, at Least for Now
• Major Players in the MOOC Universe
• Professors’ open letter: MOOCs a ‘compromise of quality education’
• MOOCs: Threat or Opportunity? [INFOGRAPHIC]

• Social Learning
  • Peeragogy
    • Autodidacticism
    • The Peeragogy Handbook
    • Literature Review: Learning Theories Supporting Peeragogy
  • Bill Pelz on Social Presence
  • Ad-hoc Social Learning Environment – How a Blog Drives Learning
  • Leveraging Social Presence in Asynchronous Training
  • Create Your Own Professional Learning Network
  • How the Social Campus Enables Tomorrow’s Workers Today

82. Education to employment: Designing a system that works – McKinsey&Company – McKinsey on Society

83. English Language Learners (ELL):

• Oregon Ed. Official: Results for English-Learners ‘Unacceptable’
• Ed. Department Focus on English-Learners Seen Waning
  • ELL Clearinghouse Contract Target of Ed. Dept. Corrective Action
• In Minn., new tactics to help immigrant students
• Report: Scrap One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Teaching ELLs
• Jerry Brown pushes new funding system for California schools
• Tacoma’s Holy Rosary School takes bilingual path
• Calif. Poised to Spotlight ELLs Stalled in Schools
• California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE)
• Students Who Struggle Early Rarely Catch Up, Study Says
• Ideas for English Language Learners | Labeling Photos, Sequencing Passages and More
• Technology is a Tool, to Bridge Latino Education Gap
• Response: Best Ways to Prepare Our Students for CCSS in Language Arts
• Three Districts Test Model Common-Core Unit for ELLs
• Minn. Superintendent Pioneered ELL Reforms
• Three Districts Test Model Common-Core Unit for ELLs
• Push Is On for Common Ways to Identify ELLs
• Stemming the Tide of English-Learner Dropouts

84. Dropout Nation

• America’s Woeful Public Schools: TIMSS Sheds Light on the Need for Systemic Reform
• Online classes target high school dropouts
  • Intensive Instruction – Student
  • Return Investment: California, 9-12K, Individual Learning Performance Improvement Solution; California High School Exit Exam, CAHSEE
• Fla. Data Link Suspension to Lower Graduation Rates
• High school graduation rate highest in 34 years
• Interactive: Mapping High School Graduation, Dropout Rates Across the U.S.
• Fewer Dropouts, More Graduates
• Texas District Goes Door to Door to Find Dropouts
• Report: High school dropouts cost economy billions
• Florida high school dropout information

85. Strength in Numbers: State Spending on K-12 Assessment Systems – Brookings

86. Comparing Private Schools and Public Schools Using Hierarchical Linear Modeling – Research from US DOE

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