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07/31 09:26 am | Best Practices in Work-Based Learning | Last week I visited GPS Education Partners, a high school manufacturing apprenticeship-based program near Milwaukee. For more than a dozen years, with support from Generac and ...
07/29 12:53 pm | Navigating the Swamp With Michael Fullan | Fullan and Donnelly describe two powerful forces that are combining to create what they call the "swamp": "One is a relentless 'push' factor; the other is a prodigious and ...
07/26 09:15 am | Deeper Project Based Learning | Project-based learning is a great way to engage students in interest-based activities but sometimes that's all it is. Good projects are deep not thin, rigorous not easy. Good ...

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07/24 04:06 pm | The Heart of Darkness*: Launching a Venture in the Ed-Tech Market | Got an idea for an Ed-Tech venture? Give it a go! But first: do your homework, recruit the right partners, and, of course, be ready to do the hustle. Here are some tips.
07/20 03:40 pm | Better to Be Lucky Than Good: The Persistent Gender Gap in Standardized Testing | If the SAT is meant to project a student's likelihood of success as a freshman in college, why are the results skewed in favor of males? Guest writer Scott Schonberger ...
07/16 10:35 am | The Problem with Ed-Tech Adoption: Infrastructure | If we are to properly outfit our classrooms with useful modern technology, we must first address the most critical stepping stone to adoption: infrastructure.

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07/28 09:50 pm | The Nature of the Future in Education | A review of Marina Gorbis's The Nature of the Future.
07/23 09:41 am | Someday/Monday: Creating with iPads | Examining iPads as objects-to-think-with.
07/22 05:57 pm | Dancing with Robots: The Skills Humans Need | A new white paper explores the changing nature of the labor market and how educators should respond.
For decades, advertising has promised faster, better, easier learning with technology, Larry Cuban writes.
April 16, 2013 - Education Week
Allowing carefully chosen brands in public schools would help schools today and the economy in years to come, Mickey Freeman writes.
November 6, 2012 - Education Week
Technology isn't a silver bullet, says Salman Khan, but when used appropriately, it can enable teachers to lead differentiated and interactive classrooms.
October 1, 2012 - Education Week
Yong Zhao asks how leaders can push for both entrepreneurial thinking and high standardized-test scores in schools.
July 17, 2012 - Education Week
Once shunned in the bolted-down classroom, nonconformity is finding its way back into school buildings by design, writes David Holahan.
July 13, 2012 - Education Week
The federal government can be a driving force for school improvement if we pay attention to history, write Patrick McGuinn, Larry Berger, and David Stevenson.
May 3, 2012 - Education Week
It may be easy to dismiss the ideas of young education entrepreneurs, but they could transform the K-12 landscape, Phoenix M. Wang writes.
November 8, 2011 - Education Week
The intuitive and creative designs of Apple products have changed our relationship to technology—once distant, it's now far more accessible, writes Greg Gunn.
October 18, 2011 - Education Week

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