We’re Losing Our Minds by Richard Keeling and Richard Hersh explains how the U.S. is endangering its social, economic, and scientific leadership due to a lack of quality and quantity of learning in college. Avoiding a single-minded solution based on financials, the authors argue that the only answer to America’s educational emergency is a fundamental change to make learning the highest priority in college. If you found this resource useful, please Recommend, Comment, Share!
A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age
January 24, 2013EdSurge discusses a Bill of Rights and Principles, newly developed by a group of people passionate about learning, serving today’s students, and using every available tool to respond better to the needs of students in a global, interactive, digitally connected world....
Digital Content: What Does the Future Hold for Education Systems?
January 23, 2013GETideas.org hosted this GooglePlus hangout on the future of digital content. The online discussion featured a panel of education experts, including Nicole Allen, affordable-textbooks advocate, Student PIRGS; Una Daly, communication college outreach director, OpenCourseWare Consortium; and Cable Green, director of global...
Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement: A Realist Analysis
January 22, 2013In Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement, author Roy Nash argues that a realist framework for the sociological explanation of educational group differences can, and must be, constructed. A move to such an explanatory framework will allow society to take into account the...
Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools
January 14, 2013In Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools, renowned educator and technology expert Jim Lengel provides a refreshing and hopeful picture of what schools should look like, including a groundbreaking seven-step process for envisioning and building them that draws on the...
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January 26, 2012This U.S. report, based on a fall 2011 survey of 35 Common Core State Standards-adopting states (including the District of Columbia), examines states’ progress in transitioning the new standards. The vast majority of states in the survey believe that the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are more rigorous than previous state academic standards in math and English. In addition, the vast majority of survey states are taking steps to familiarize…
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January 26, 2012This report is the result of Australia’s National Assessment Program—Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), for which tests are conducted in May each year for all students in years 3, 5, 7, and 9. All students in the same year level are assessed on the same test items in the assessment domains of Reading, Persuasive Writing, Language Conventions (Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation), and Numeracy. Each year, more than one million students nationally sit the NAPLAN tests,…
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January 25, 2012Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education, edited by Michael Hout and Stuart W. Elliott, reviews and synthesizes relevant research from economics, psychology, education, and related fields about how incentives work in educational accountability systems. The book helps identify circumstances in which test-based incentives may have a positive or a negative impact on student learning and offers recommendations for how to improve current test-based accountability policies. The most important directions for further research…
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January 23, 2012By the early 21st century, a startling consensus had emerged about the overall aim of U.S. school reform. In an era of political discord, and in a field historically known for contentiousness, the notion of promoting educational excellence for all students was a distinct point of bipartisan agreement. Shaped by a corps of entrepreneurial reformers intent on finding “what works” and taking it to scale, this hybrid vision won over…
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January 20, 2012From 2014, impact will play a role in the allocation of research funding to U.K. universities through the Research Excellence Framework (REF). This presents universities with a new challenge: how best to capture research results and construct submissions to the REF. RAND Europe and Ranmore Consulting Group have developed ImpactFinder, an analysis and advice package to help senior research leaders determine how best to identify research with the greatest impact…
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January 17, 2012This working paper from the Brookings Center for Universal Education examines inequality in education, noting that people who are “denied the chance to develop their potential through education face diminished prospects and more limited opportunities in areas ranging from health and nutrition, to employment, and participation in political processes … This is why education has been identified as one of the most critical factors in breaking down the disadvantages and…
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January 17, 2012Australia’s Department of Education has announced the release of each state and territory’s 2011 Smarter Schools National Partnerships Progress Report. The reports detail progress and milestones achieved in the first six months of 2011. With the government’s acceptance of the Progress Reports, states and territories received $263.3 million in facilitation payments under the Low Socioeconomic Status School Communities and Improving Teacher Quality National Partnerships. If you found this resource useful,…
