Expertise: Policy

4 Ways to Scale Personalized Learning

This article focuses on opportunities to scale personalized learning. The author identifies design elements that support national, district and regional growth, and offers links to several reports from recent months that show strategies on measuring and scaling personalized learning. Source Organization: Getting Smart Visit the Resource  

The Learning Policy Institute

This organization is a national education think tank focused on K-12 learning. The Learning Policy Institute conducts, commissions, and communicates high-quality research to shape policies that support equitable and empowering learning for all children. The Learning Policy Institute’s work includes research and policy analyses surrounding the topics of early childhood learning, deeper learning, educator quality,… Read More ›

State Approaches to Competency-Based Education to Support College and Career Readiness for All Students

This brief provides an overview of competency-based education (CBE). Free from the restraints of a one-size-fits-all approach, CBE provides strategies to set college and career readiness expectations for all students while creating personalized education opportunities. Using many state policy examples, this brief looks at specific ways states are using CBE to support college and career readiness… Read More ›

A Northeast Region View of Competency-Based Learning: Definitions, Policies, and Implementation

3–4:30 p.m. ET Join the growing national and regional conversation about proficiency- and competency-based learning, the school and district reform that departs from traditional Carnegie unit and seat-time requirements for students. REL Northeast & Islands researchers will present a new study on definitions and policies related to competency-based learning and implementation across the region, and a representative… Read More ›

Students at the Center Research Series

Students at the Center began with a series of nine research papers, developed in partnership between Jobs for the Future and the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, drawing attention to the importance of engaging each student in acquiring the skills, knowledge and expertise needed for success in college and a career. In fall 2013, Students at… Read More ›

SXSWedu

SXSWedu supports innovations in learning for education practitioners, industry leaders and policy makers who share a passion for modernizing learning and building best practices that can be applied from early childhood to higher education in both formal and informal environments. Check back soon for more information on student-centered sessions at SXSWedu! Learn more and access… Read More ›

Keeping Pace with K-12 Digital Learning: An Annual Reivew of Policy and Practice (2014)

This report documents the state of digital learning across the country. First the authors report on the types and prevalence of digital learning programs across the nation, including statewide fully online schools, state virtual schools offering supplemental courses, course-choice programs offering supplemental courses from a variety of providers, schools that blend online with more traditional… Read More ›

Harvard Family Research Project

This organization seeks to promote family and community involvement in children’s education anywhere and anytime they learn, be that in the home, at school, in community programs, or through digital media. To that end, the Harvard Family Research Project conducts research and documents promising practices, creates frameworks and policy papers, and provides tools for professional… Read More ›