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Understanding the economics of online learning
Guest blogger Bill Tucker gives his take on Fordham's latest publication, "The Costs of Online Learning."
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Calculating the costs of online learning
Today Fordham is releasing the latest installment in its Creating Sound Policy for Digital Learning working paper series, "
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School Finance
The Costs of Online Learning
The latest installment of Fordham's Creating Sound Policy for Digital Learning series investigates one of the more controversial aspects of digital learning: How much does it cost? In this paper, the Parthenon Group uses interviews with more than fifty vendors and online-schooling experts to estimate today's average per-pupil cost for a variety of schooling models, traditional and online, and presents a nuanced analysis of the important variance in cost between different school designs.
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Accountability & Testing, Governance
Quality Control in K-12 Digital Learning: Three (Imperfect) Approaches
Will the move toward virtual and “blended learning” schools in American education repeat the mistakes of the charter-school movement, or will it learn from them? The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, with the support of the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, has commissioned five deep-thought papers that, together, address the thorniest policy issues surrounding digital learning. The goal is to boost the prospects for successful online learning (both substantively and politically) over the long run. In this first of six papers on digital learning commissioned by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Frederick M. Hess explores the challenges of quality control.
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Governance, Teachers & School Leaders
Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction
Will the move toward virtual and “blended learning” schools in American education repeat the mistakes of the charter-school movement, or will it learn from them? The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, with the support of the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, has commissioned five deep-thought papers that, together, address the thorniest policy issues surrounding digital learning. The goal is to boost the prospects for successful online learning (both substantively and politically) over the long run.
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New Year. New Website. Same great content.
Explore. Interact. Learn. Get acquainted with the innovative new features of our redesigned website.
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A look around the new www.edexcellence.net
It’s been a busy day on the revamped Fordham Website. Here’s a rundown of what you may have missed:
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Five thoughts about NCLB on its tenth anniversary
It’s time for the federal government to lead from behind
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A new year, a new look for Fordham’s blogs
Mike explains Fordham's new approach to blogging and previews all the offerings.
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Flypaper’s 11 most popular posts of 2011
A look back at the year's most-read and most-tweeted content on Flypaper.
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My 7 predictions for 2011: A scorecard
Mike looks back at his bold predictions for 2011 and tallies up his score.
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The Green-tea Party
Checker lays out a third party platform for disaffected Republicans and Democrats.