Blending toward competency: A closer look at blended learning in New Hampshire
Blended learning comes in various shapes and sizes in New Hampshire. In 2007, Exeter Region Cooperative School District (SAU 16) in Exeter, N.H., applied for […]
Blended learning comes in various shapes and sizes in New Hampshire. In 2007, Exeter Region Cooperative School District (SAU 16) in Exeter, N.H., applied for […]
May 21, 2014
By Julia Freeland Based on a small, early-stage sampling of schools in New Hampshire, this white paper describes how blended-learning models that tend to be disruptive relative to the traditional classroom appear especi...
May 20, 2014
Last week, we published the first paper in a two-part series on competency-based education. That paper investigates what competency-based education means in practice in New […]
May 16, 2014
Today we released the first in a series of papers looking at important progress afoot in the state of New Hampshire: “From policy to practice: […]
May 7, 2014
By Julia Freeland New Hampshire has been a trailblazer among states in catalyzing competency-based education at the high school level. This case study looks at how 13 schools in New Hampshire are undergoing the transiti...
May 6, 2014
This week at the ASU+GSV conference—an enormous education innovation Summit held each year in Phoenix—Evan Marwell, founder of Education Superhighway, gave a lecture in a […]
Apr 25, 2014
People working in education policy often talk about the virtues of “opening up” space for innovation. Besides overtures of deregulation, this effort often manifests in […]
Apr 15, 2014
Late last year I wrote about the potential for Federal Youth CareerConnect grants to spur competency-based models in high schools and communities. This week, President […]
Apr 9, 2014
Two weeks ago, Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Joshua P. Starr unveiled a detailed strategic plan for overhauling the county’s struggling alternative school program. The […]
Mar 14, 2014
Education technology stands to more efficiently expand not just what you know, but whom you know. Technology may be a tool to impart skills and […]
Mar 7, 2014