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5 Issues to Watch in 2013 by Andrew Rotherham was originally posted on Eduwonk.com.   I’ve been tied up, traveling, and working on some other 2013 forecast projects, but here are five things I’d pay attention to this year on education policy: Common Core – This seems likely to be the big story of the [...]

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Great Boards for Great Schools by Tom Vander Ark was originally posted on GettingSmart.com.   Two decades of experience with performance contracting in the delivery of public education has wrought some hard-earned lessons. We know what good authorizing looks like. We know how to open great new schools. What if we put these to recently developed capabilities together? Here’s a [...]

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Cumulative national estimates place the cost of the Common Core Standards project at a national price point between $3 billion to $12 billion, begging two important questions:  Why this?  Why now? In an effort to help inform the conversation and bring clarity to perceived versus actual costs of Common Core implementation in school districts, Compass [...]

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Over the last decade the growth of online learning in American schools has been unprecedented, and school leaders are enthusiastically embracing new technologies and new models of instruction.  The shift from print to digital text has been swift by educational standards, and the move to blended-learning environments focused on differentiated instruction and personalized learning is [...]

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