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Entries by Tom Vander Ark from 12/2010

Digital Learning Now

| Posted 12.05.2010 | Huffington Post
Read More: Online Learning, Bob Wise, Education Reform, Jeb Bush, Digital Learning Now, Huffington Post News

American K-12 education is facing it's "GM moment" when it must do more with less. Digital Learning Now offers a roadmap to meet the academic and financial challenges of the future.

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Parents Pull the Trigger in Compton and Nationwide

| Posted 12.08.2010 | Huffington Post
Read More: Ben Austin, Parent Trigger, Homeschooling, Online Learning, Education Reform, Charter Schools, Compton, Huffington Post News

Parents at McKinley Elementary School in Compton, Calif., are planning the first test of a new state law which allows parents to force reform in traditional public schools.

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Riots or Innovation?

| Posted 12.11.2010 | College
Read More: Mitch Daniels, Online Learning, Western-Governors-University, Blended-Learning, Higher Education, British Student Protests, Britain Student Riots, College Tuition Rates, College Tuition Hikes, College Tuition Inflation, British Student Riots, College News

It is no longer possible to justify a generation of double digit education inflation -- it can be avoided and dampens returns on education to society and individuals.

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Digital IQ may plug the Ingenuity Gap

| Posted 12.21.2010 | Politics
Read More: Nasa, Entitlement, Digital IQ, State Department, Recession, Politics News

For most of this decade, I've been obsessed with Thomas Homer-Dixon's Ingenuity Gap; the problems we face grow in complexity while our civic problem s...

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