Category Archives: education
NY Times: Customized education doubles the pace of learning.
From an April 18, 2010 article in the New York Times:
Virtual simulations, labs and tutorials allow for continuous feedback that helps the student along. The student’s progress is tracked step by step, and that information is then used to make improvements to the course. Several studies have shown that students learn a full semester’s worth [...]
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2010 book: “153 million students are now enrolled at universities around the world, a 53 percent jump in just nine years.”
From the forthcoming book The Great Brain Race — How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World:
153 million students are now enrolled at universities around the world, a 53 percent jump in just nine years. With many nations unable to keep up with this growing demand, students have strong incentives to seek higher education wherever they [...]
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CS Monitor: In Hong Kong, star tutors leverage media/PR to earn $1.5 million salaries
From the March 2, 2010 edition of the CS Monitor:
Their confident faces smile out from billboards across the city. Their promotional grins are plastered across double-decker buses, subway light boxes, even on TV.
These are Hong Kong’s “star tutors,” accorded near-celebrity status for their ability to make learning fun and help students pass exams in everything [...]
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Me live, via a recording
I’m introducing and expanding on the executive summary (.pdf) of my biz plan. One take. Only a short list of talking points to guide the effort. Could’ve been a lot worse.
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U.S. Dept. of Education: “21st century learning… [is] personalized learning.”
On March 5, 2010, the U.S. Dept. of Education released a draft (.pdf) of the executive summary of their 2010 National Educational Technology Plan.
An excerpt:
The model of 21st century learning described in this plan…leverages the power of technology to provide personalized learning instead of a one-size-fits-all curriculum, pace of teaching, and instructional practices.
It’s not complicated… [...]
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Teacher survey from Scholastic and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Over 90% of teachers agree that customization is “essential.”
The just-released survey (.pdf) is (sub-)titled: Primary Sources — America’s Teachers on America’s Schools. 40K public-school teachers were surveyed.
An excerpt:
To keep today’s students engaged in learning, teachers recognize that it is essential for instruction to be tailored to individual students’ skills and interests. More than 90% of teachers say that differentiated assignments are [...]
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Customized M.B.A.? Stanford is for you.
From Rethinking the MBA [sic], a forthcoming 2010 book:
In Fall 2007, the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) adopted a new curriculum…The curriculum was the school’s most far-reaching change in thirty years , emphasizing customization…
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NY Times: “Dozens of public high schools in eight states will introduce a program next year allowing 10th graders who pass a battery of tests to get a diploma two years early.”
Standardized education is beating a hasty retreat.
From the February 17, 2010 edition of the New York Times:
Dozens of public high schools in eight states will introduce a program next year allowing 10th graders who pass a battery of tests to get a diploma two years early and immediately enroll in community college.
…The new system of [...]
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Lots of great “Ideas for Change in America” are on display at Change.org
I was just surfing around the site. Lots of smart, inspiring submissions…
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UK Prime Minister: “Education will be perhaps our biggest export in 20 years’ time.”
From the February 11, 2010 edition of The Guardian newspaper:
[British PM Gordon] Brown also said he wanted to build up Britain’s universities. “There are 1,000 universities being built in India and we want to be part of this educational export. I think that education will be perhaps our biggest export in 20 years’ time,” he [...]
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My submission to the U.S. Dept. of Ed.’s new OpenEducation site
The site: “How should we collaborate with…businesses?”
My submission (with supporting info): Advocate for ‘jobs stimulus’ that subsidizes consumers and producers of customized education, and operators of associated online markets.
Predictable?
You can comment and/or vote at the site.
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Merciful reviewers
A Google employee blogs:
A fantastic post about disrupting education.
Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi “calls out” a comment I left on his blog. The comment excerpts from this blog entry of mine.
From After the Frat, a blog:
A brilliant idea by Frank Ruscica about how to finally get out of this economic quagmire.
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Obama education adviser: “21st-century schools should integrate new technologies for learning and create personalized structures for supporting students.”
From The Flat World and Education: How America’s Commitment To Equity Will Determine Our Future, a forthcoming 2010 book by Stanford professor and Obama education adviser Linda Darling-Hammond:
21st-century schools should integrate new technologies for learning and create personalized structures for supporting students.
…Also key is the creation of networks that allow teachers, leaders, schools [...]
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NY Times:”The average G.P.A. at private colleges and universities today is 3.3. At public schools, it is 3.0.”