21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."

"The data provided in this report is so encouraging," said DPHHS Director Richard Opper. "It clearly shows that early intervention works.

The Cambridge study
states that 95% of employees are unaware or do not understand
the organizations strategy. The main focus of
successful BI is to provide less information and increase
the strategic alignment of the information provided in attempt
to keep its constituents better informed.

According to the survey, 75 percent of teachers link educational technology to a growing list of benefits, saying technology helps them to reinforce and expand on content (74 percent), motivate students to learn (74 percent), and respond to a variety of learning styles.

In his annual letter to supporters of The Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation and in subsequent interviews last week, Bill Gates discusses the influential role that big data can play in "saving" a troubled public school system in the U.S.

I wanted to strike a balance between supporting the kinds of activities that are typically undertaken in digital history and digital humanities projects right now, while also enabling our students and faculty to engage in the kind of "making in public" that many people argue will characterize the humanities and social sciences in the next decade.

This year, my letter focuses on how important it is to set clear goals and measure progress in order to accomplish the foundation’s priorities, both here at home and around the world.

"I think what’s exciting about this data is that we have it at all. We have not had a common data set for kindergartners, ever." Kathe Taylor, director of early learning assessment for the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

As these "courses in a box" continue to improve, though, they could shift the professors’ role to be more like pilots on modern commercial planes, who let the autopilot do the flying except when they have to step in.

‘Mississippi Excellence in Teaching’ could be a model for teacher education programs nationwide

"Just because you’re a ‘C’ student doesn’t mean you’re not incredibly smart," said Laurie Daugherty, the program’s director. "Sometimes the personality types and thinkers who make the best entrepreneurs are the kids sitting in the back of the class not really engaged in the stereotypical classroom style of learning."