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