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Applications Open Now for Lexington Education Leadership Fellowships – Second Cohort The Lexington Institute has proudly opened applications for its second class of Lexington Education Leadership Award Fellows. The second LELA fellowship cohort will kick off with 30 fellows participating in a Fellowship track at the International Association of K-12 Online Learning annual conference in Orlando, Florida in November, where they will benefit from structured interactions with many of the education world’s foremost leaders and thinkers in personalized learning.
Personalizing Learning in Central New Jersey: Reflections from a LELA Fellow I asked Dr. Ross Kasun, Superintendent of the Freehold Township School District in New Jersey, to reflect on his experiences so far as a member of our charter class of Lexington Education Leadership Fellows, and on implementing personalized learning in a school district not far from where I grew up. Applications are now open for our second cohort of fellows.
Be One of Ten to Personalize for Thousands: Lexington Education Leadership Award Fellowships The Lexington Institute is excited to announce a second class of Lexington Education Leadership Award Fellows. The LELA fellowship is an exciting 6-month program designed to expose district superintendents to personalized learning and facilitate the first steps to implementation. The small group of ten district superintendent LELA Fellows will be given an immersive experience to support each district’s vision creation for personalized learning as well as resources to create a strategic framework for implementation.
Reforming Education Funding To Reward Performance (from Forbes) Most education budgets are based almost entirely on student attendance, not actual outcomes. Current taxpayer spending on K-12 public education -- at 5.4 percent of GDP -- is likely unsustainable at the system's present levels of productivity. A new C ...
Personalizing Educational Excellence in the Arizona Desert Summary This Fall, Arizona’s Yuma Elementary School District One will become the nation’s first traditional school district to convert to a districtwide personalized learning model for all students in all schools. Superintendent Darwin Stiffler and in ...
Washington Post’s False Alarm on Blended Learning Over the weekend, the Washington Post ran a long essay from Phil McRae, an official with the Alberta Teachers’ Association. Mr. McRae’s article is highly dismissive of blended learning, which he suggests is a “myth” comprised of old ideas repackaged b ...
What Does Valuable Federal Leadership for Personalized Learning Look Like? When implemented effectively, federal support can offer valuable impetus for the expansion of personalized learning in schools. Education laws that connect funding to meaningful accountability for student outcomes will help, because accelerating student growth is central to what personalized learning is all about. It is also important that Washington not get out in front of the nation’s schools in a way that hinders future innovation of models for teaching and learning. Personalized and blended learning are still in their early adoption phases, and are constantly improving
Try Performance Based Funding to Narrow Education Achievement Gaps From NJ Spotlight How can New Jersey schools address troubling achievement gaps, improve graduation rates and college- and career-readiness, while the state decreases the number of chronically poorly-performing schools AND increases the number of high- ...
Performance Based Funding In New Jersey: Leveraging Education Spending To Close Stark Achievement Gaps Click here to download the full study as PDF. Executive Summary New Jersey has among the highest levels of elementary and secondary education spending in the nation, accounting for at least 6.3 percent of the state’s GDP. But the impact of this investm ...
Taxation Finds Representation in Smart Education Reform This year, more Americans than ever before are eligible to take advantage of special education tax incentive programs that not only support increased opportunities, but save taxpayer dollars. A trending education reform movement, state-run savings or scholarship accounts, are on the fast track to becoming law in as many as a dozen states, where tax-exempt dollars can translate into long-term savings. Especially in states where taxpayers’ return on their education investment seems less certain, diversifying education funds through state-based scholarship accounts can make meaningful returns, both academic and financial, a reality. Nevada and Mississippi in recent weeks became the third and fourth states to pass education scholarship bills.