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      2012 Illinois Highlights

      • Illinois has made access to high-quality content a priority, by providing standards-based content that can be purchased using instructional funds.
      • Illinois offers a mix of a statewide and district-level online options.

      Current Strengths and Reform Opportunities

      • With slight modifications to existing laws in Illinois, the state would create more space for innovation. Examples include charter laws requiring for students to physically meet once a week and attendance boundary laws for online schools.
      • Illinois policymakers must tackle broad shifts in funding to expand student access to high-quality options.

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      RELEASE: What’s Your State’s Digital Learning Grade? Find out in the DLN Report Card.

      TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Digital Learning Now (DLN), an initiative of the Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), today released the 2014 Digital Learning Report Card. The Report Card measures state progress in advancing state policies against the 10 Elements of High-Quality Digital Learning. In 2014, states continued to implement and refine the 422 laws enacted…

      28 Apr 2015
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      Our actions today will decide history

      By: Patricia Levesque, CEO, Foundation for Excellence in Education Today, the Foundation for Excellence in Education released the 2014 Digital Learning Report Card, an annual report that grades each state’s 2014 digital education policies. If you’re left wondering how these policies affect you, just consider what is happening in your hometown right now. In the…

      28 Apr 2015
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      Everything I needed to know about student data, I learned in kindergarten

      By: Andrew Kossack Everything I needed to know about student data, I learned in kindergarten. My son’s kindergarten class, specifically. Recently, my wife and I experienced our first parent-teacher conference as a mom and dad. Our son’s school encourages its students to lead parent-teacher conferences, so our little five-year-old served as the official host for the…

      11 Dec 2014
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      When the Stars Align in Support of Learning . . .

      By: Karla Phillips There is one key area where K-12 and higher education policy intersect—teacher preparation. Higher education needs college and career ready graduates while K-12 turns around and asks for better equipped teachers. I think it’s safe to say that there is broad agreement on the importance and impact a great teacher can make—a…

      8 Dec 2014
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      Join Us at the 2014 National Summit on Education Reform

      Dear Friends, Today, registration opens for the Foundation for Excellence in Education’s seventh annual National Summit on Education Reform in Washington, D.C., November 20 – 21, 2014. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision.  The site of our summit, the Marriott Wardman Park, hosted Thurgood Marshall the evening before he appeared before the U.S….

      6 Oct 2014