Education
Announcing the Lexington Education Leadership Award Winners The Lexington Institute is excited to announce that ten outstanding leaders from across the country have been accepted into the first Lexington Education Leadership Award (LELA) Fellowship. The LELA fellowship is an exciting and highly selective 6-mont ...
We Must Better Prepare Children for Colleges of the Future The landscape of higher education is being reconfigured by several major trends. These include the proliferation of low-cost and ever-improving digital learning programs. What will this require of our elementary, middle and high schools to ensure they are ready? Student-paced programs better prepare high-school students for success by requiring them to take responsibility for their own education decisions in ways children in most twentieth-century classrooms did not.
Supporting Special-Needs Students with Personalized Blended Learning Approximately 6,000,000 special needs students attend U.S. public schools, facing frequent and well-documented challenges beyond their peers. Most special-needs students spend at least 40 percent of their time in mainstream classrooms. While nationally ...
Announcing the Lexington Education Leadership Award The Lexington Institute, a non-profit public policy think tank focused on education reform, presents the Lexington Education Leadership Award (LELA) Fellowship. The LELA fellowship, launching simultaneously with Education Elements’ Personalized Learnin ...
What First-Rate Charter School Authorizing Could Do for the Children of Newark Research by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes shows that charter schools accountable to the most effective authorities wielding a staunch focus on quality have resulted in powerful student outcomes. Proposals by state Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D-Newark) and state Assemblyman Jay Webber (R-Parsippany) propose some limited improvements in the current state system for charter oversight. Each would establish new, independent charter authorizers, but weakened by overlaps of authority that seem destined to allow politics to creep into education decisions.
Tips for Schools to Fund Blended Learning Initiatives With the broad attention that personalized blended learning is receiving around the country, public school superintendents and other decisionmakers are registering increased interest. While the powerful outcomes reported by the early adopters of these ...
Transforming Education Through Digital And Blended Learning Executive Summary January 2015 -- The growth of innovative new personalized learning models is fast becoming the most compelling story in American elementary and secondary education. These instructional models are underway in most parts of the country, ...
An Education Reform No One is Talking About – But Should Be Performance-based funding is a first step in breaking the current funding structure that delivers dollars to all schools regardless of performance.
Disrupting an Aging Industry to Improve Teaching and Educational Outcomes RICHMOND (VA) TIMES-DISPATCH A new initiative announced recently by Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction Steven Staples has the potential to substantially upgrade the content taught in schools across the commonwealth, and empower classroom tea ...
A Dynamic Model for Catholic Education Cristo Rey schools provide an exemplary model, one that is growing and expanding and could revitalize the realization of Catholic schools nationwide. The network opened a new school in California's Silicon Valley this fall; San Jose Jesuit, a Cristo Rey school, has created a smart, sophisticated technology learning model to enhance and empower teacher instruction, while exclusively serving underprivileged youth.