Posts Tagged ‘ United Kingdom ’

Invisible Learning to be published in early 2011

12/20/2010
IL-facts

About a year ago, Cristóbal Cobo and I announced a research project called Invisible Learning. After many months of work, collecting experiences, researching literature, interviews, and exchanges with experts (and –above all– many hours of writing), we can announce that in 2011 the Invisible Learning book will be a reality (in print and digital formats).


Education Futures mailbag, part 2

3/14/2008

A letter was received in response to a letter posted in Monday’s mailbag rundown. Citing Elaine Wooton’s note regarding The Freedom School, Misha Gale wrote on an upcoming fundraiser at a similar school: As you may know, Summerhill School receives no support from the British government, and so has to charge fees. Because not everyone [...]


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Edison High School is poised to Leapfrog

[Cross-posted from Leapfrog Institutes newswire.] Last March, Minneapolis Public Schools announced that Edison High School and Washburn High School will be overhauled in response to under-performance. As part of the “fresh start” agenda, nearly all staff members at each school received notice that their contracts would not be renewed, and they would have to reapply [...]


Education Futures mailbag

With many folks away at SXSW, CIES and AERA, the next couple weeks are going to be quiet. What better time than now to catch-up on the mail! First, Elaine Wooton sent a note a couple weeks ago in regard to my chart of Education 1.0/2.0/3.0: I am part of a group starting a school [...]


Florida Virtual School Report

The following is a brief excerpt from an article in the Orlando Sentinel regarding a study of Florida Virtual School. The Florida Virtual School is a good deal for Florida taxpayers. That is the view of Florida Tax Watch, which recently did a study on student performance and cost effectiveness at the virtual school. The [...]


University of St. Thomas still needs a new president

Grant Smith, who wrote the brilliant essay challenging University of St. Thomas president Dennis Dease to embrace the values it taught in its now defunct Master of International Management program, dropped me a note stating that he received a reply from the school: I am beginning to agree with your blog posting: University of St. [...]


Wikipedia big with experts?

An interesting article appeared at Ars Technica yesterday: A new salvo has been fired in the perennial war over Wikipedia‘s accuracy. Thomas Chesney, a Lecturer in Information Systems at the Nottingham University Business School, published the results of his own Wikipedia study in the most recent edition of the online journal First Monday, and he [...]


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