Preparing for classes of 15,000, including the occasional 9-year-old. Short Q&As with professors of MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses) and their initial thoughts. (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Less pep, please. The problem with the FCAT, Florida’s state tests, is not with the test itself, argues a local columnist, but with the frenzy leading up to it. (Orlando Sentinel)
How you gonna keep ‘em? In an effort to keep young people in town, officials in Niagara Falls, N.Y., will start offering checks of $3,500 per year (for up to two years) to recent college graduates to help pay off their loans if they agree to buy or rent in the downtown area. (ABC News)
What’s to come in 2014-15. Education Sector’s Susan Headden joins Fordham Institute’s Mike Petrilli to talk about the Common Core and how it will change education and assessments in the future. Headden also wrote about the forthcoming changes in a recent Washington Monthly special report. (MPR News)
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3/21/2013 | Andrew Gillen discusses net tuition and MOOCs with Kevin O’Neill on