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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

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

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

16. Despite Some Progress Made, Chicago Public Schools is Not Meeting the Needs of Students for College Readiness, Graduation Rates and Closing Achievement Gaps

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

20. U.S. Education System in Crisis and Endangering the Nation’s Global Competitiveness: U.S. has a Serious Education & Skills Gap

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
• Metacognition: Thoughts on How People Learn
• 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
• Do “Clickers” Always “Click” in the Classroom?
• 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?
  • Research for Practitioners: Nine Ways to Reduce Cognitive Load
• Memory Consolidation
• Memory Principals
• Distributed Practice
  • The Myth of ‘Practice Makes Perfect’
• Spaced Repetition
  • Is technology rewiring your child’s brain?
• Differentiated Instruction
• Brain Rules: The Twelve Brain Rules
• Brain: Can You Build a Better Brain?
• Learning Research: Pile on the Learning, Easy on the Technology
• Memory: How Memory Works, an Infographic
• Memory: Multitasking Takes Toll on Memory, Study Finds
• Memory: Sleep Your Way to An ‘A’
• 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
• Blended Learning Is Better than Instructor-led or Online Learning Alone
• 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
  • Accelerated Learning: Accelerated Learning Resources
• Brain Based Learning: 12 Design Principles Based on Brain Based Learning Research
• Engage Brain: 5 Ways to Create Interactive Slides
• Brain Research: How Current Brain Research Can Improve Education
• An Inside Look At How Project-Based Learning Actually Works
• Competency-Based Schools Embrace Digital Learning
• How Teens Do Research in the Digital World [Pew internet a Project of the PewResearchCenter]
• Attention Matters: Taming Distraction by Developing Attentional Intelligence
• The Essence of Transformational Adult Learning
• 3 Ways the Brain Makes Meaning – Ted Talk
• Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning
• How the government can drive school innovation
• Reinventing Education: Sal Khan, Peter Norvig, and Sebastian Thurn
• How to Encourage School Board Accountability
• L.A. School First in KIPP Network to Embrace Blended Learning
• How proper ed-tech implementation can transform learning
• The Digital Promise in Education
• 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].
• Testing Consortium Crafts College-Readiness Definition
• Can Text Messages (SMS) Support Learning?
• Science Standards Require a Teacher-Learning Rethink
• Lesson Nuts and Bolts: Content Becomes its Own Context
• TPACK 101: This video podcast describes the importance of integrating technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge into classrooms (TPACK)
• One to One Solution: Where Are We Today?
• Classes a la carte: States test a new school model
• Learned! Next Generation Science Standards
  • NGSS
• Report: Online learning needs quality assurance [From the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL)].
  • “Measuring Quality from Inputs to Outcomes: Creating Student Learning Performance Metrics and Quality Assurance for Online Schools”

• 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)

• Learning, Transfer, Application; Pedagogy & Technology
• Deeper Learning (Hewlett Foundation)
• Five Characteristics of Learner-Centered Teaching
• Nellie Mae Education Foundation
• Grunwald Associates has just released a preliminary analysis of Florida’s Career and Professional Education (CAPE) Act passed in 2007.
• http://theelearningcoach.com/elearning2-0/2011-learning-technology-trends/
• The Key to Making Anything Interesting
• Expanding Time for Learning Both Inside and Outside the Classroom: A Review of the Evidence Base – The Wallace Foundation
  • Commentary
• Snapshot of a Deeper Learning Classroom: Aligning TED Talks to the Four Cs
• What’s Your Strategy for 2013?
• What are the differences between long-term, short-term, and working memory?
• 24 Ed-Tech Terms You Should Know
• Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research
• Project-Based Learning, Plugged In!
  • 21st Century Schools!
    • Critical Pedagogy
• Meeting Their Needs: A Guide to Individualized Education Plans
  • Teach.com
• The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT
• Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching
• Research for Practitioners: Can Text Messages (SMS) Support Learning?
• Phonics teaching method downplayed
• Study: Motivation Is More Important Than IQ For Succeeding In Math
  • Motivation, Study Habits — Not IQ — Determine Growth in Math Achievement
  • Time.com
• Here’s a Better Way to Remember Things
• Research for Practitioners: How to Improve Knowledge Retention
• The Blended & Virtual Learning Frontier Special Report
• 5 Big Discoveries About Personal Effectiveness in 2012
• 39 Mobile Learning Tools
  • Don’t forget to integrate appropriate pedagogy, for individual, long term, learning, transfer and application
• The Neuroscience of Joyful Education
• What Project-Based Learning Is — and What It Isn’t
• When is Homework Worth the Time?: Evaluating the Association Between Homework and Achievement in High School Science and Math
• Blooms Taxonomy
  • A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy: An Overview
    • Bloom’s Taxonomy Bloomin’ Pinwheel
      • Flipped 3.0
  • Another Look – Infographic
  • Bloom’s Taxonomy: What’s Old Is New Again
• Great Debate: Why arguing is the best way to learn
• Five Things That Changed At My School When We Adopted A Competency-Based Model
• New Learning Opportunities Create Self-directed Learners
• Congressional Briefing on Neuroscience in the Classroom
• Start the New Year with a new way to look at students who don’t seem to care
• Animations: When to Use Them and When to Lose Them
• Leveraging Words and Visuals in Training
• Creative Thinkers, Innovative Outcomes: IDSA K12 Design Education Symposium 2012
• Common Core, Whole Child, Teacher Leadership, and Action Research: A Perfect Storm?
• Addie Model – Video: Overview of the ADDIE Instructional Design Model
• Interactive Online Characters and elearning
  • Interactive Characters: Online Benefits
  • Digital Tutors are More Effective When They Resemble Students
• Here Comes 2013: The Big Themes in Learning
• TEDxWilliamsport – Dr. Derek Cabrera – How Thinking Works
  • We learn by doing. Um…no we don’t
    • DSRP
    • Cabrera Research Lab
• Improve Your Learning with Practice Tests (and Skip Less Effective Techniques Like Highlighting)
  • Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques; Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology
• Highlighting Is a Waste of Time: The Best and Worst Learning Techniques
  • Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology
• 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
• Top 10 Reasons Coaching Counts in 2013
• Learning Research: Questioning as an Instructional Method
• Deeper Learning: Why Cross-Curricular Teaching is Essential
• 6 pillars of a 1:1 initiative
• Research Review: Teacher Expectations Matter
• Do you feel like you belong? why it matters for learning
• How Digital Learning Contributes to Deeper Learning
• What Value Do You Place on Learning?
• Are You Developing Learning by the Numbers?
• Change the Subject: Making the Case for Project-Based Learning
• Supporting Critical Thinking in eLearning
• Problem Based Learning:
  • Problem-based learning (PBL) is an exciting alternativeto traditional classroom learning
  • What is Problem-Based Learning?
  • IMSA’s PBL Teaching and Learning Template
  • The Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning (IJPBL)
• [INFOGRAPHIC] How to Use the PAF Model to Improve Training and e-Learning
• Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques
• Reimagining Learning: Richard Culatta at TEDxBeaconStreet
• Fixing Schools
• Three Myths of Online Learning
• Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research
• Singing Praise for Formative Assessment
  • Waving the Flag for Formative Assessment
  • How to Create and Use Rubrics for Formative Assessment and Grading
• Tennessee tries innovative approach to boosting student achievement
• How Schools Can Successfully Partner With Local Businesses
• Research on note-taking
• No Academic Harm Found in Early Retirement of Teachers
• Lifting the Curse of Expertise
• Dan Pink: How Teachers Can Sell Love of Learning to Students
• Digital Learning Day: Free resources, White House speaker
• Rethinking the Notion of ‘Noncognitive’
• Mining the Research
• A View into the Future of eLearning
• Facilitating Online Communities of Practice – Lessons Learned
  • The Report
• Top 20 Best Books on Coaching and Mentoring
• The Ties that Bind; Making e-Learning Stick
• ‘The Objective of Education Is Learning, Not Teaching’
• Teaching vs. Facilitated Learning
• Learning at the Water Cooler and Everyplace Else
• The What Works Clearinghouse; Evidence for What Works in Education
• Connected Learning versus Blended Learning: New Terms, Old Debate
• Brain Based Learning:
  • Understanding How the Brain Thinks (Part 1 of 7)
  • The Brain-Based Benefits of Writing for Math and Science Learning (Part 2 of 7)
  • Improving Executive Function: Teaching Challenges and Opportunities (Part 3 of 7)
  • Three Brain-based Teaching Strategies to Build Executive Function in Students (Part 4 of 7)
  • Three Strategies for Using the Arts to Build Student Executive Functions (Part 5 of 7)
  • Executive Function, Arts Integration and Joyful Learning (Part 6 of 7)
  • A Neurologist Makes the Case for Teaching Teachers About the Brain
  • Articles by Judy Willis
• Bill Gates: My Plan to Fix The World’s Biggest Problems
• Why the time to “disrupt class” is now
• Research for Practitioners: How Expert Designers Design
• Internships Help Students Prepare for Workplace
• Parents Get Training to Support Children’s Learning
• RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
• Bill Gates: Invest in better teaching
• The Center for Accelerated Learning
• Strengthening High School Teaching and Learning in New Hampshire’s Competency-Based System
• The Global Search for Education: If not the SAT, What?
• How-To Adult Learning
• Understanding Pedagogy and its Impact on Learning
• Infographic: How to Implement Blended Learning
• Making Mastery Work
• Preparing our students for Web 3.0 learning
• A Parent’s Guide to 21st-Century Learning
• Individualized program showing signs of success in West Allis-West Milwaukee schools
• The virtues of confusion
• Attention Span and Performance Improvement
• How to know if you know
• The Science of Learning
• Improving executive function
• Research for Practitioners: Student Annotation of Examples Improves Learning Outcomes
• The Ties that Bind – Making Training Stick
• Expecting the best—and getting it
• Effective trainers help make training stick
• Math, PBL and 21st Century Learning for All Students
• John Moravec from the University of Minnesota already has quite a compelling vision for Education 3.0
• Ten tips to build interactivity
• Tell, Show, Do, Apply: The Anatomy of Good Instruction
• Learning Methods A to Z
• Use Science to Maximize Brainpower
• Effects of Prior Light Exposure on Early Evening Performance, Subjective Sleepiness, and Hormonal Secretion
• If online students aren’t engaged, blame their teacher
• RESEARCH: How Information Fragments Can Help Us Remember
• Behavior Expert Seizes Chance to Run an Ambitious Experiment in Higher Education
• Unlearning Mistaken Ideas
• How to stimulate curiosity
• Inside the Learning Brain
• Brain Dead Spaces
• Dispelling misunderstandings about PBL
• A Nation at Risk: Where Are We Now?
• It’s Time to Create School Systems that Learn
• Why Google Is Investing in Deep Learning
• Schools Vet Ed. Companies’ Research With a Critical Eye
• Inside the Learning Brain
• How the Brain Learns
• A simple exercise that works wonders: affirm your values
• How is Interval Reinforcement transforming corporate learning? [INFOGRAPHIC]
• The Modern Taxonomy Wheel
• Overcoming Four Barriers to Evidence-Based Education
• The Story Arc Model: Combining Simulation and Story to Create Memorable Learning
• Why learning and multitasking don’t mix
• For-Profit Experiment Plays Out in Two Mich. Districts
• Study: Sesame Street boosts early childhood learning
• Adult Development: Predicting Learning Success
• The “Dirty Dozen” Ways Charter Schools Influence Student Enrollment
• Effects of Prior Light Exposure on Early Evening Performance, Subjective Sleepiness, and Hormonal Secretion
• New White Papers, Case Studies and Special Reports
• Common Standards Set for Federal Education Research
• Students can’t resist multitasking, and it’s impairing their memory
• Getting kids to learn is about relationships
• Our Three eSteps to Lasting Behavioral Change
• ALEC ‘Report Card’ Gets ‘A’ for Ideological Fealty, Fails on Research Quality
• Nuts and Bolts: We Need New Words

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