Education Elements

JANUARY 10, 2018

As we continue to progress through the 21st century we are compelled to ask whether current models of schooling are well designed for the world beyond classroom walls. In particular, it’s worth reflecting on 3 essential questions in school model design, a term we use to refer to how schools are organized to deliver instruction to students.

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Education Elements

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Since its publication, this white paper has been downloaded over 3,000 times by educators across the world. It is often the first resource we share with educators, it has been cited in research and position papers, and it has been adopted and customized by school districts.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Digital Promise’s new white paper examines how the organization has ensured the content of micro-credentials and the process for earning them are anchored in rigorous research. Digital Promise is the gold standard. …

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Education Elements

JANUARY 18, 2017

Over the past six months I’ve explored hundreds of news stories, white papers, and blog posts focused on why and how leaders might foster a culture of innovation. Recently it seems that innovation is a buzzword on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Need happier employees? Need bigger profits? Need better leadership?

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Education Elements

JULY 26, 2017

Thankfully, Education Elements created a 9 step process, and compiled tips and tricks from district leaders across the country in our new curriculum white paper: “Phase Three: Review, Demo, and Select Digital Content and Tools.” You can also get Phase 1 and Phase 2 if you want to catch up first.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2017

Across the country, individual schools and districts have been piloting personalized learning for several years with some impressive results,” according to a white paper published by Rhode Island about its efforts to personalize learning.

Digital Resources 75

Digital Resources Professional Development Government Public School 75

ED Surge

AUGUST 21, 2024

Addressing the Science of Reading : An Imagine Learning EL Education white paper on how 35 years of peer-reviewed research from the fields of educational psychology, cognitive science and neuroscience have contributed to our understanding of the science of reading.

Pedagogy 107

Pedagogy Psychology Cultures Teaching 107

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The Rhode Island EdCluster (EduvateRI) convened diverse stakeholders to write a white paper that helped set the state’s vision on personalized learning. Within their local context, EdClusters drive powerful change within their communities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

SNHU President Paul LeBlanc, in a white paper on the topic in 2011, wrote, “The game-changing idea here is that when we have assessment right, we should not care how a student achieves learning. We can blow up the delivery models and be free to try anything that shows itself to work.”.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2022

That’s a task that Stanford University researchers have been doing through an effort to draft a white paper that gathers observations about teaching and learning during the pandemic and notes key lessons that could be built on going forward.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2018

In a white paper last month, the city’s education department committed to maintaining the city’s capacity of subsidized infant and toddler care. Through it all, the city must keep careful watch on the larger system of childcare on which working families depend.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2023

You can read more about play and parenting in this recent white paper , published by Wright and her co-researchers, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a professor of psychology at Temple University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and Bo Stjerne Thomsen, chair of Learning Through Play and vice president of the LEGO Foundation.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 13, 2016

Here’s a partial list: rejuvenated a struggling educational leadership program at Iowa State University, including doubling our program’s enrollment, faculty, and tuition revenue; graduated 13 Ph.D.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Will you release a white paper, or tools? We were very much influenced by the book “Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence.” It's written by three economists out of the University of Toronto. What kind of output do you think you'll have? We think we'll have research and tools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

Last fall, a white paper by O.U.’s Rather than by buying “ads on television” or seeking “success in ball-throwing exercises,” he said, universities “become great when their students become Rhodes Scholars or their faculty win Nobel Prizes.”. Related: How higher education’s own choices left it vulnerable to the pandemic crisis.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 29, 2017

It has spurred the publication of white papers, launch of incubators and conferences, as well as interest amongst journalists and advocacy groups.

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Education Elements

AUGUST 13, 2019

We published results in both a white paper, Look Both Ways , and series of strategy modules on our Blended and Personalized Learning At Work site. Through interviews and a national survey, we asked them to tell us about the most important decisions they had to make when taking innovations to scale.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And he wrote the white paper for it around the time of that bagel meetup for the Thiel Fellowship. You may not know that name, but in the tech world, he’s now a big deal. He co-founded the blockchain system called Ethereum, which allows what are known as smart contracts. Lots of people see this as a world-changing idea.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2017

Ultimately, participants proposed publishing a graphical white paper outlining the value propositions behind micro-credential implementation and conducting a communications audit across organizations implementing micro-credentials, with the goal of creating a consistent definition.

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Education Professional Development Leadership Economics 56

Digital Promise

APRIL 18, 2017

To start understanding the various types of value micro-credentials supply, participants proposed publishing a graphical white paper outlining the distinct value propositions for each stakeholder in the ecosystem and the associated costs, from dollars to time.

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Professional Development Economics Cultures Research 51

Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2019

The study, published in a white paper by a team including Martin West of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, showed that sixth-graders who participated in an eight-week mindfulness were less stressed out than their classmates who hadn’t. They designed a study focusing on sixth-graders in another Boston-area school.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2016

But as a new report from Project Zero ’s Agency by Design concludes, the real value of maker education has more to do with building character than with building the next industrial revolution.

Pedagogy 49

Pedagogy Professional Development Research Education 49

Digital Promise

JANUARY 25, 2016

Three months and more than 400 submissions later, we have learned a lot about the potential for micro-credentials and areas of further need and we’ve documented them in a white paper. We learned that: Teachers who earn micro-credentials want to earn more of them.

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Professional Development Education 48

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Nearby, another student poked holes in a piece of white paper with a large push pin to create outlines of shapes. See if you can do it vertical,” said his teacher. That means up and down, big to little.” The little boy nodded and quietly began to stack the boxes. Another student sat at a table practicing drawing lines.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 12, 2024

In addition to publishing in peer-reviewed journals, she wrote an invited White Paper on Disability and Voting for the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, and co-authored the book People with Disabilities: Sidelined or Mainstreamed? published by Cambridge University Press.

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Political Science Psychology Human Rights Professional Development 65

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A group of professors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology dropped a provocative white paper in September that proposed a new kind of college that would address some of the growing public skepticism of higher education. This week, they took the next step toward bringing their vision from idea to reality.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

They released a white paper yesterday called “Ideas For Designing An Affordable New Educational Institution,” where they lay out a framework for essentially a new class of university that would take advantage of various trends that have emerged in the past few years. It’s unclear whether anyone is ready to step in and build an NEI.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

EduvateRI recently exemplified the power of this model through the public release of their personalized learning paper , which aimed to “ignite a statewide conversation” by sharing the contributions and aspirations of organizations and individuals across the state. The power of bringing these stakeholders together is monumental.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Data Source: 2024 White Paper on Suicide Prevention (Ministry of Health and Welfare, 2024). This view individualizes the issue, also overlooking the creative and diverse care practices these individuals use to manage their suicidality.

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Anthropology Psychology Social Justice Economics 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In a white paper she co-authored this year, Mooney cited research that connected officers hired through the federal “COPS in Schools” program to a reduction — about 1 percent to 2 percent — in disruptive criminal incidents on campus. School police “are often increasingly serving that role as school disciplinarian,” she said.

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