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Degrees of Value: Evaluating the Return on the College Investment

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Andrew Gillen, Jeff Selingo, and Mandy Zatynski

| May 9, 2013

What will a student get in return for investing in college, perhaps while taking on significant debt? Often it’s not that students and families question the value of college per se, just the value of attending certain colleges.

Related Issue(s): Accountability, College Costs, Graduation Rates, Measuring Student Learning, Student Loans and Financial Aid, Higher Education

A Briefing for Fairfax’s New Schools Chief

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Kristen Amundson

| April 19, 2013

Kris Amundson gives three tips to help the new superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools have an easy transition.

Related Issue(s): Accountability and School Improvement, K-12 Education, Data-Driven Improvement

The Four Lessons I Learned by Taking a MOOC

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Andrew Gillen

| April 4, 2013

Related Issue(s): Accountability, Accreditation, Productivity, Technology, and Innovation, Higher Education

Chart showing satisfactory and unsatisfactory performance

The Evergreen Effect: Washington’s Poor Evaluation System Revealed

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Chad Aldeman

| March 25, 2013

The Evergreen Effect digs into Washington State data and highlights the failures of rudimentary teacher evaluation systems, and for Washington in particular, just how bad they really were.

Related Issue(s): Accountability and School Improvement, K-12 Education, Data-Driven Improvement, Teacher Quality

The Right Mix: How One Los Angeles School is Blending a Curriculum for Personalized Learning

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Susan Headden

| February 6, 2013

Susan Headden profiles the Alliance Tennenbaum Family Technology High School, a blended learning pioneer that is illustrating both the strengths and challenges of implementing such a radical new way of educating students.

Related Issue(s): K-12 Education, Expanded Learning and School Time, Virtual Learning