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All Hands on Deck: Activating the Common Core
The Common Core is far from business-as-usual for our nation’s educators, which means we’ll need more than traditional strategies to implement these standards on the ground. While the Common Core still remains on the drawing board in most states and districts,...
Daring To Make Dance a Priority in Education
When public K-12 schools are pressured to decrease costs and devote more time to standardized testing, arts programs are one of the first to be cut. Despite a nationally adopted education agenda that seeks to promote creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration...
QFI’s Open Education projects
QFI’s approach to Open Education is one that is driven by context, aimed at developing a learner-centered experience, one that is real, rich, and relevant to the world around us. QFI’s commitment to the Open Education movement provides opportunities to create social...
Composing Possibilities: New Study by ISKME, Carnegie Hall Takes Score of Open Music Resources
Driven in part by changes in technology and student expectations, the landscape of music teaching and learning is rapidly transforming. Against this backdrop, music educators—especially in underfunded schools and in light of new Common Core State Standards—are...
Bodies in Motion: Video Shouts Out to Open Education
“Open Ed” is a thirty-second video, that stitches together fragments of physical abandon captured at ISKME’s Big Ideas Fest 2012. Since 2009, hundreds of educators, students, entrepreneurs, researchers, philanthropists, and education technologists have attended the...