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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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2005 OECD report: Increasing the average schooling level of the population by one year increases long-term economic growth by 3.7%
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:
A recent OECD report found that for every year the average schooling level of the population is raised, there is a corresponding increase of 3.7% in [...]
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Two of Obama’s main education advisors: “By 2012, America will have 7 million un- or under-filled jobs in science and technology, ‘green’ industries, and elsewhere due to a lack of skilled workers with post-secondary education.”
From a November 4, 2008 article on Huffingtonpost.com:
Stanford University’s Linda Darling Hammond and New Leaders for New Schools’ Jon Schnur, two of Barack Obama’s main education advisors, wanted me to share their view on the importance of Obama’s education plan for America’s economic future. Here it is.
…At a time when three-quarters of the fastest growing [...]
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Senior lecturer in psychology and the director of the teaching program at Williams College: “Research has shown unequivocally that children learn best when they are interested in the material or activity they are learning.”
From a February 2, 2010 editorial in the New York Times:
It’s great that the [Obama] administration is trying to undertake reforms, but if we want to make sure all children learn, we will need to overhaul the curriculum itself. Our current educational approach — and the testing that is driving it — is completely at [...]
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U. Michigan economist: “At age 22, there are 185.5 women holding a Bachelor’s degree (or more) for every 100 men who have graduated from college.”
In a January 29, 2010 blog entry, Mark Perry writes:
According to a report released yesterday by the BLS:
“At age 22, women were more likely than men to be enrolled in college and were more likely to have received a bachelor’s degree. Twenty-nine percent of women were attending college during the October when they were age [...]
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U.S. Dept. of Education: “21st century learning… [is] personalized learning.”