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Common Core

How is your state addressing common core standards?
Federal K-12 Funding

How much of your district's budget originates in Washington?
Teacher Evaluation

The difficulty and controversy of measuring teacher performance.
College Affordability

Higher education costs keep rising -- where are students getting the money?

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The No Significant Difference Phenomenon
Ongoing
This Web site aggregates studies measuring whether online college courses are as effective as traditional ones. Despite the site’s name, the database now includes research with a range of findings, but most show that students completing online courses learn as least as much as those in a classroom. (WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies)
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U.S. News Best Online Programs
Ongoing
While this magazine has long ranked traditional college programs, it only started working on a guide to online programs in 2011. (U.S. News & World Report)
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NMC Horizon Report: Higher Education Edition
Ongoing
Each year this report identifies six key trends in technology in higher education and presents an analysis of their potential impacts. The 2013 edition predicts that MOOCs and tablet computing will become widespread at colleges within the next year. (New Media Consortium)
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