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Why Are Common Core Critics Against Personalized Learning?

December 20, 2018 By Shane Vander Hart

Shane Vander Hart: There are several reasons why Common Core opponents are taking up the fight against personalized learning, here are seven reasons I oppose it.

Filed Under: Education Reform Tagged With: Common Core, personalized learning

Students Rebel Against Summit Education Program, Personalized Learning

November 15, 2018 By Shane Vander Hart

High school students in Brooklyn, New York City walked out of school in protest of a personalized learning program funded in part by Mark Zuckerberg.

Filed Under: Education Reform Tagged With: personalized learning

Ed Reformers Turn Against Testing, But For the Wrong Reason

November 14, 2018 By Shane Vander Hart

Shane Vander Hart: Both the testing and accountability movement and personalized learning are examples of top-down, dataless reforms that won’t work.

Filed Under: Education Reform Tagged With: Chalkbeat, personalized learning, standardized testing

A Robot at the Head of the Class?

September 4, 2018 By Shane Vander Hart

Shane Vander Hart: There may not be a robot at the head of the class, but under this model of education teachers will no longer teach.

Filed Under: Education Reform Tagged With: ed tech, personalized learning

A Peek at a “Mastery-Based Classroom”

August 24, 2018 By Shane Vander Hart

In their “Future of Learning” series The Hechinger Report takes a look at a fourth-grade math classroom using “mastery-based learning.” The future is bleak.

Filed Under: Education Reform Tagged With: mastery-based learning, North Carolina, personalized learning, standards-based learning, The Hechinger Report

Where Personalized Learning and Competency-Based Learning Are Headed

August 2, 2018 By Shane Vander Hart

In North Dakota, the future of competency-based education and personalized learning is now with the elimination of grades and self-guided education.

Filed Under: Education Reform Tagged With: Chris Berdik, Competency-Based Learning, personalized learning

Is American Government Rejecting Capitalism & Embracing a Managed Economy?

August 1, 2018 By Karen Effrem

Karen Effrem: Although Tucker and colleagues tout European education-workforce systems, none have produced or will produce American levels of freedom and prosperity.

Filed Under: Workforce Development Tagged With: Betsy DeVos, Carl Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, Common Core, Competency Based Education, Every Student Succeeds Act, Goals 2000, Hillary Clinton, Marc Tucker, Michael Chapman, Michele Bachmann, No Child Left Behind, personalized learning, Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports, School to Work, Smaller Learning Communities, Social-Emotional Learning, The Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Labor, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act

DeVos Speaks to Conservative High School Students

July 26, 2018 By Shane Vander Hart

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos spoke at the Turning Point USA High School Leadership Summit on Thursday in Washington, DC.

Filed Under: Education Reform Tagged With: Betsy DeVos, Educational Freedom, personalized learning, school choice, Turning Point USA, workforce development

Personalized Learning Is Not Personal

July 3, 2018 By Shane Vander Hart

A teacher writing for EdSurge recognizes the flaws with personalized learning and its use of education tech, but he’s caught between two competing education trends.

Filed Under: Education Reform Tagged With: education tech, personalized learning, Social-Emotional Learning

Five Problems With Shifting to Competency Based Education

May 22, 2018 By Shane Vander Hart

Former executive director for the Gates Foundation, Tom Vander Ark, wrote a piece for Forbes that plugged both competency-based education (CBE) and personalized learning. Shane Vander Hart points out five problems with what he suggests.

Filed Under: Education Reform Tagged With: Competency Based Education, Gates Foundation, personalized learning, Tom Vander Ark

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