Monthly Archives: September, 2013
Parenting More Important Than Schools for Academic Achievement
Source: Science Daily, Oct 2012 New research from North Carolina State University, Brigham Young University and the University of California, Irvine finds that parental involvement is a more significant factor in a child’s academic performance than the qualities of the school itself. Specifically, the researchers looked at how “family social capital” and “school social capital” …
Job Market Embraces MOOCs
Source: WSJ, Sep 2013 Big employers such as AT&T Inc. T +0.53% and Google Inc. GOOG +0.11% are helping to design and fund the latest round of low-cost online courses, a development that providers say will open the door for students to earn inexpensive credentials with real value in the job market. New niche certifications being offered …
Average of 476 high-schoolers to a college counselor
Source: TechCrunch, Sep 2013 As Admitted.ly CEO and founder Jess Brondo pointed out, the average ratio of high schoolers to college counselors is 476 to 1. And that’s only among the 27% of high schools that have a dedicated college advisor.
Blended Learning Implementation Guide (version 2)
Source: Digital Learning Now website, Sep 2013
K12 Teacher and Admin Salaries Below Norm
Source: Business Insider, Sep 2013
Flipped Classroom Improves Grades by 5%
Source: The Atlantic, Sep 2013 A three-year study examining student performance in a “flipped classroom” — a class in which students watch short lecture videos at home and work on activities during class time — has found statistically significant gains in student performance in “flipped” settings and significant student preference for “flipped” methods. The study, provided exclusively to The Atlantic, …
15 Year-Old Mongolian Gets Perfect Score on MIT MOOC
Source: NYTimes, Sep 2013 Battushig, then 15, became one of 340 students out of 150,000 to earn a perfect score in Circuits and Electronics, a sophomore-level class at M.I.T. and the first Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC — a college course filmed and broadcast free or nearly free to anyone with an Internet connection …
Ranking Colleges by Salaries (starting and mid-career)
Source: Payscale, Sep 2013
Incorporating Technology into the Classroom
Source: NYTimes, Sep 2013 When I asked Klein, who routinely characterizes current debates about education as “ideological, not evidence-based,” what evidence supports spending tax dollars on educational technology, he boiled it down to three things. First and most important was the power of “customizing.” Plenty of research does indeed show that an individual student will …
MIT Class of 2017 Statistics
Source: MIT, Sep 2013 The acceptance rate was 8.2 percent, MIT’s lowest-ever and down from 8.9 percent the previous cycle. The success rate was even lower for international students, with only 115 of 4,363 foreign applicants being offered acceptance. The 75th percentile of SAT scores in the math, reading, and writing sections were 800, 790, …
Be G.R.E.A.T. Academy 