Tag: next generation learning
July 17, 2012
July 17th, 2012
Local News WHYY Newsworks Sharing food with Penn Farm Students at nearby William Penn High School rent land at historic Penn Farm and established a community support agriculture program to sell produce to neighbors. During the school year, the William Penn students work for grades but, right now, the farm is their summer job. The teens earn $8.75...VIEW ARTICLE
July 11, 2012
July 11th, 2012
Local News Sussex Countian Fritz, Wright fill Indian River board vacancies James E. Fritz and Leolga T. Wright have been chosen to fill vacancies on the Indian River Board of Education. Both of their terms will expire in June 2013. Cape Gazette Venables secures $350,000 state federal loan for Laurel School District Sen. Robert L. Venables...VIEW ARTICLE
The Flattening World of Education: The launch of edX
May 4th, 2012
Thomas Friedman famously opined that the world is flattening as providers of commerce gain equal footing in an increasingly globalized world. Leaving aside the positive and negative consequences of this reality, it appears that these forces are slowly moving into the education sphere, as evidenced by the recent launch of edX. The effort...VIEW ARTICLE
Are the Expectations the Same in Smyrna and Singapore? Common Core in the Classroom
February 21st, 2012
In 2006, Vision 2015 recommended that “our standards [become] as challenging as those that the highest-performing countries expect their students to meet,” and four years later Delaware adopted the Common Core State Standards along with 44 other states and D.C. The promise of these standards is their ability to set a common, higher bar for...VIEW ARTICLE