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Thursday, April 08, 2010
Traditional schools aren't working. Let's move learning online - Katherine Mangu-Ward,Washington Post
It's time to take online education seriously -- because we've tried everything else. Education Secretary Arne Duncan debuted his Blueprint for Reform this month to mixed reviews, joining at least 30 years' worth of government officials who have promised that this time, honest, they're going to fix education. Even the reforms promoted by the much-ballyhooed federal Race to the Top funds, which are supposed to encourage innovative educational practices, offer mostly marginal changes to the status quo. In an early March speech on technology in education, Duncan touted $500 million in new federal spending over 10 years to develop post-secondary online courses -- an area of online education already thriving without federal assistance -- thus arriving at the dance 15 years late and an awful lot more than a dollar short.
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