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Chileans Suffer while Waiting for Education Reform
May 16, 2012
Despite more than a year of mass protests that raised hopes across Chile for education reform, few students have seen any real benefits. Politicians and students have hardened their positions, but the system is still rife…

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Romania Tries Again to Find an Education Minister
May 16, 2012
Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta named trade union leader Liviu Pop as education minister today after the two previous appointments were forced to quit over allegations of plagiarism and incompetence. The ministry faces numerous challenges regarding education…

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Full-Time Virtual Education Lacks Accountability
May 16, 2012
Although virtual schools continue to grow each year, more research and accountability is needed to foster and support effective online educational environments, according to a new report from the National School Boards Association’s Center for Public Education (U.S.)….

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Learning from the Energy of Our Differences
by Konrad | May 16, 2012
Several years ago, I was invited to work with a school in Georgia to help the administration address very serious problems relating to student motivation and engagement, teacher burnout, and what they described to me as…

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Moving a Mountain: STEM Education, from Concept to Reality
by Ted | May 14, 2012
STEM Education continues to emerge as one of the most critical components needed to prepare the next generation of workers for the future. Identifying the fundamental skills that STEM interventions impart, where they should occur, and…

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Learning to Unlearn
by Michelle | May 2, 2012
As an age-old joke goes, it is difficult to know what fish talk about, but you can be sure it is not water. – Peter Senge Senge’s reflections about goldfish are…

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The Universal Language of Story
by Laura | Apr 25, 2012
We are the stories we are told. Each of us alone and all of us together are the living embodiment of all the stories we have heard and all the stories we have told each other….

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Future Learning: Catherine Lucey

May 16, 2012

In this GOOD Future Learning video, Catherine Lucey, Vice Dean of Education at the University of Calfornia, San Francisco, School of Medicine, shows how integrating technology aids the faculty in training the next generation of compassionate,…
Digital Teaching Platforms: Customizing Classroom Learning for Each Student

May 16, 2012

The Digital Teaching Platform (DTP) brings the power of interactive technology to teaching and learning in classrooms. In this authoritative book edited by Chris Dede and John Richards, top researchers in the field of learning science…
Searching for the Reality of Virtual Schools

May 16, 2012

In this report, the Center for Public Education describes various ways digital learning is offered to students, from individual online courses to full-time virtual schools. In addition, the report examines current state and district policies that…
A New Dawn for STEM Education

May 15, 2012

Writing for the Huffington Post, U.S. Representative Barbara Lee (Oakland, California) thoughtfully discusses the need for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education to prepare today’s students for highly skilled career positions. Lee notes that private-public…
Noam Chomsky: The Purpose of Education

May 15, 2012

In this Learning Without Frontiers video, noted linguist, philosopher, and historian Noam Chomsky discusses the purpose of education, the impact of technology, whether education should be perceived as a cost or as an investment, and the value…
ATC21S: An Overview of CPS Tasks

May 14, 2012

This video provides an overview of the Assessment & Teaching of 21st-Century Skills (ATC21S) collaborative problem solving (CPS) tasks, showing them in use at a participating school in Australia. It previews the ways in which ATC21S…
How Teachers Make Cell Phones Work in the Classroom

May 14, 2012

KQED MindShift profiles the use of mobile devices in the classroom, presenting examples such as an advance-placement chemistry class at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco, California, where cell phones are a natural extension of the…
To Flip or Not to Flip?

May 14, 2012

In considering the flipped-classroom approach, Edudemic argues that we must take a good look at what the classroom looks like now, what activities students gain the most from, what we wished we had more time for, and…

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