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GED lowers passing grade, adds tiers

The company selling the most commonly used GED test, has decided to lower what it considers a passing score, after changing to a new test that some considered to be “too hard”. This is a follow up to recent post here discussing how states were now offering...

Technology evolution

After interviewing Julia Parra about what she sees happening with learning today, I took some time to follow up on some suggestions from Julia regarding the technology evolution.  Thanks to Julia for leading us at PSA to some quality links in our pursuit of the latest...

Chief Knowledge Officer

Karen L. Pedersen, Chief Knowledge Officer of the Online Learning Consortium has recently posted concerning CBE. (see other post today). In case we’re not sure what a CKO is, here’s the wikipedia definition. Seems like the CKO should also be responsible...

Community Schools

The Las Cruces Sun News shares a report on a movement in Las Cruces to create full service schools for the community. A full service school would provide for more then academics on site. The report quotes David Greenberg, an organizer for Ngage New Mexico. PSA...

Will children be a different species? :TED

Throughout human evolution, multiple versions of humans co-existed. Could we be mid-upgrade now? Juan Enriquez sweeps across time and space to bring us to the present moment — and shows how technology is revealing evidence that suggests rapid evolution may be under...