by kris | Dec 10, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
I found an article in our small Peninsula Daily News celebrating the release of a low-cost online math tutoring program, called Education Online Learning (EOL). Â A math tutor from the area, Andrew Martyanov, Â had a hand in creating the tutoring program. Â He answered...
by andflywrite | Dec 9, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
Story in recent Las Cruces Sun News on La Acadamia Dolores Huerta push to find a larger facility. Numerous interesting to PSA facts within, such as all charter schools must be in “publicly owned buildings” by 2015. Would this apply to “New America...
by kris | Dec 8, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
From Inge de Waard’s blog on a new Carnegie Mellon initiative  making learning data public. “Carnegie Mellon University will open the world’s largest database on student learning to the public in an effort to identify best practices and standards for using...
by andflywrite | Dec 5, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
From a few weeks ago, a LA Times story on the iPad initiative. As the Atlantic top ed stories indicated, the school board in LA was changed in a recent election with union and anti charter school supporters gaining power on the BOD. They revisited the iPad initiative...
by andflywrite | Dec 5, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
The Atlantic has a year in review for Ed stories in 2013. As one commenter noted, these stories on “education” seem to have a heavy political component.
by andflywrite | Dec 3, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
Saw the Smithsonian tv/ video show on various members of a club they call “American Genius”. Of special note here is Caroline Hoxby video portion, where she discusses research she did on students with potential that are overlooked for financial aid to our...