This report from the U.S. Department of Education’s IES National Center for Education Statistics presents results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2011 for mathematics at grades 4 and 8. Results for students in the nation, the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Department of Defense schools are reported as average scores and as percentages of students performing at or above three achievement levels: Basic, Proficient, and…
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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November 1, 2011This report from the U.S. Department of Education’s IES National Center for Education Statistics presents results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2011 for reading at grades 4 and 8. Results for students in the nation, the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Department of Defense schools are reported as average scores and as percentages of students performing at or above three achievement levels: Basic, Proficient, and…
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October 28, 2011Research on E-Learning and ICT in Education, edited by Athanassios Jimoyiannis, is an essential text for researchers and academics seeking the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of all aspects of ICT in education and e-learning. The book is a multidisciplinary forum covering technical, pedagogical, organizational, instructional, and policy aspects of the topic. Special emphasis is given to applied research relevant to educational practice and guided by the educational realities in schools,…
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October 26, 2011UNESCO’s 2011 Global Education Digest examines trends in secondary education, which is the next great challenge for many countries approaching universal primary education. Globally, the number of children enrolled at the secondary level has tripled since 1970, but access remains limited in many countries. The report shows how gender disparities are shaping the levels of educational attainment of boys and girls and explores how the combination of different types…
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October 25, 2011This book edited by Arianne Rourke and Kathryn Coleman highlights research and practice where pedagogy effectively uses as well as leads the technology in teaching, learning, and assessment in higher education. The examples provided not only highlight how teaching practice can become research, an important focus for 21st-century academics, but also provide exemplary case studies and theoretical perspectives on the importance of a student-centred approach to adopting technology for teaching…
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October 21, 2011Education Week‘s Digital Directions examines how publishers like McGraw Hill and Pearson are tapping into cloud computing to offer a wider array of digital resources, such as e-textbooks for primary and secondary curricula.
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October 20, 2011Educating students to traditional literacy standards is no longer enough. If students are to thrive in their academic and 21st-century careers, then independent and creative thinking hold the highest currency. In Literacy Is Not Enough, authors Lee Crockett, Ian Jukes, and Andrew Churches explain in detail how to add these new components of literacy into the traditional curriculum: Solution fluency Information fluency Creativity fluency Collaboration fluency
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October 19, 2011The Foundation for Excellence in Education created this interactive U.S. map by assessing each state’s alignment to 72 metrics–including 7 transformational metrics– that were developed based on 10 Elements of High-Quality Digital Learning.
