Teach For America to Pilot Yearlong Teacher Training, Retention Efforts (Education Week) – Teach For American has launched two new pilot programs to look into the benefits of more substantial training for its members as well as efforts to increase its retention rates.
How Movies Can Connect Students to Writing and the Common Core(Education Week) – By incorporating film into an English course a Mass. teacher has found that she can meet all the common core standards while getting students to be more engaged in their writing and discussions.
Big data is just a stepping stone (GCN) – While most firms are focused on being able to collect, manage, and process big data, the next step can be found in companies such as Pandora and Netflix that use this data to make inferences about their users.
How MassHealth cut Medicaid fraud with predictive analytics (GCN) – Massachusetts has turned to a big data analytics system to help it prevent fraud in its Medicaid system by using predictive analytics before payments are issued.
Governors Urged to Seize Pre-K Momentum (Education Week) – Secretary of Education Duncan is encouraging state governors to work towards expanding their early childhood education systems while there is strong support for the issue.
