Crafting Colorado's Digital Learning Policy Roadmap
- March 20, 2012
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Ed News Colorado Highlights Digital Learning Policy Roadmap0
- March 22, 2012
The Education Policy Center’s newly-released Digital Learning Policy Roadmap was headlined in the Denver-based nonprofit news service Education News Colorado‘s March 22 “Thursday churn”: The report, based largely on a national Digital Learning Now! campaign, evolved out of a Jan. 23 gathering co-sponsored by the institute and the Donnell-Kay Foundation and featuring Susan Patrick, CEO
READ MOREIndependence Institute Shares Colorado’s Own Digital Learning Roadmap0
- March 21, 2012
The Independence Institute’s newly-released digital learning policy roadmap reflects the expressed priorities of nearly 50 online education leaders and policy experts who convened in January. The publication covers nine key changes in the areas of funding, assessment and accountability, and student access and eligibility. The new roadmap shows what Colorado can do to effectively allow technology to enhance the work of great teachers and to foster innovation and students’ ability to customize their educational opportunities.
READ MORECrafting Colorado’s Digital Learning Policy Roadmap0
- March 20, 2012
A number of policy obstacles stand in the way of Colorado having the kind of flexible and student-centered system that accommodates choice and innovation through the effective use of new technologies. Education Policy Center director Pam Benigno and the Donnell-Kay Foundation’s director of special projects Matt Samelson join senior policy analyst Ben DeGrow to discuss how Colorado online education leaders came together in support of key innovative ideas featured in the newly-released issue backgrounder “The Future of Colorado Digital Learning: Crafting a Policy Roadmap for Reform.”
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The Future of Colorado Digital Learning: Crafting a Policy Roadmap for Reform0
- March 20, 2012
Nearly 50 Colorado online education leaders (including school district and charter school staff) and policy experts gathered Monday, January 23, 2012, to help craft a roadmap of digital learning policy priorities for the state. Participants worked together to help identify Colorado’s leading digital learning policy priorities in three major categories: Access and Eligibility, Funding, and Assessment and Accountability. Given a list of policy options that included Digital Learning Now’s recommendations, participants selected those they saw as the most important for Colorado to pursue in the near term and to offer additional ideas or suggestions. According to many of the state’s online leaders, the following policy changes would enhance opportunities for Colorado’s children to achieve educational success.
READ MOREBenigno Highlights Digital Learning Day on Amy Oliver Show0
- February 1, 2012
On the first-ever national Digital Learning Day, Education Policy Center director Pam Benigno appeared on AM 1310 KFKA’s Amy Oliver Show to discuss the Center’s new parent-friendly guide to Colorado’s online learning programs and the need for high-quality digital learning policy changes in our state. Click below to listen: [February 1, 2012, 10 AM Hour,
READ MOREIndependence Institute, Liberty on the Rocks Celebrate School Choice Week with Kids Aren’t Cars Movie0
- January 30, 2012
On Thursday, January 26, Liberty on the Rocks and the Independence Institute celebrated National School Choice Week by co-hosting a special event at the Independence Institute’s new Freedom Embassy in Denver. Attendees watched selected portions of the 2011 movie Kids Aren’t Cars. Afterward, the Education Policy Center’s Pam Benigno and Ben DeGrow shared some insights
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