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Know Where We can Get One Million Qualified Teachers?

Last week I touched on distance learning evolving as a traditional method for high school online learning.  Inserted in my blog was this quote from the Alliance For Excellent Education touching on the role of the teacher.

Once Considered Non-Traditional Learning Is Becoming a Tradition

For over forty years, Blueprint Education has provided accredited Distance Learning courses to students worldwide.  Historically this type of learning was often referred as non-traditional or alternative learning.  So in reading a recent report put out by Alliance For Excellent Education titled The Online Learning ImperativeA Solution to Three Looming Crises in Education, I am reminded that what was once considered

Unsolicited Feedback – The Honest Truth

This month, we received a letter from a group of seasoned professional working with youth in therapeutic schools and programs throughout the country.  There are a number of these “centers” serving adolescents and children identified by their affiliation with the National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSAP).  We have been working with such centers for the past 15 years and more intensely in the past 5 due to increased demand in mental health services.

Overhauling “No Child Left Behind”

Yesterday on Talk of the Nation, NPR’s Larry Abramson and Claudio Sanchez explain Obama’s proposed education overhaul and assess his new Race to the Top initiative.  Since the Bush Administration’s No Child Left Behind Act brought sweeping changes to our education system, many argue it emphasizes testing over learning.  You can listen to the Story below:

Bill Gates Talks Twitter, Education and Global Health

Earlier this week, Bill Gates (@BillGates) sat down with Jon Stewart, host of The Daily ShowThe Gates Foundation grantmaking focus is backing innovations in education, food, and health as well as some related areas like savings for the poor.  Gates describes the foundations plan for the US.

LA Talk Radio - Troubled Teen Help Interview

LA Talk Radio is the brainchild of Sam Hasson, a Southern California entrepreneur who built a mainstream radio station offering a variety of light, entertaining programs in the form of live streaming and on-demand archives.  Last week, Dr.

Top Five Books In 2009

This time last year, encouraged by my board of directors I embraced social networking and decided I was long overdue for one of those social networks, so I joined LinkedIn.  Building a network of professionals, staying in touch and collaborating in a virtual way is something I have enjoyed.  One particular feature I like with LinkedIn is the ability to add a reading list.  This has been a valuable application to share and watch other lists within my network allowing me to

What Makes a healthy lunchbox?

Having three children who bring their lunch to school 98% of the time creates an assembly line in our home most mornings.  My wife and I figure we make close to 2,250 individual lunches over the course of a school year.  No small task and well worth mentioning a recent article in BBC News, What’s in a Healthy Lunchbox?

Progress paradox…living with less and liking it

Great questions posed by Katherine Schulten in the New York Times The Learning Network section.  I recently completed Dr. John Medina Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School.  It was Rule #10 Vision trumps all other senses that…

You may not have a best friend – but do you belong?

While in Phoenix last week, Mark French, President, Dr.

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