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Personalized Learning Requires Effective Teaching First..Technology, Second....

Buldog sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 81, Clicks: 4)
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Authors discuss their perspectives on promoting personalized learning in schools from the policy, classroom, and staff development perspective.

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Nothing can replace a good teacher

Newman sumitted ago via http://www.allvoices.com (Views: 94, Clicks: 4)
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Jay Mathews -- Those who hope 21st-century technological wonders will save our schools should read a recent lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan. It tells the story of Melvin Marshall, a seventh-grader at Barber Focus School in Highland Park.

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Rules Proposed for District Race to Top Contest

nitajo sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 118, Clicks: 4)
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School districts that want a slice of the latest, nearly $400 million in Race to the Top competitive grants will have to put a major focus on helping schools tailor instruction to the needs of individual students—and agree to evaluate school board members and superintendents—under draft regulations released by the U.S. Department of Education Tuesday.

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