Forty-six states have signed on to an agreement to create common academic standards. This is long overdue and could be a tremendous leap forward. It’s also almost inconceivable. Kudos to The Council of Chief State School Officers,The National Governors Association,
Stimulus funding for open curriculum
There is a flood of stimulus money coming into education this summer, including a substantial amount for ed tech. This is one-time funding that is to be spent quickly, but in a way that yields significant, long-term gains. I can
Another nail in the coffin…
California is considering more legislation that would allow schools to shift funding from textbooks to electronic instructional materials. Combined with (state-approved) open textooks, this could pave the way for more effective learning experiences. Now we just need to find some
CA launches open textbook initiative
Calilfornia has launched an initiative for free, open textbooks for high school math and science. Very nice to see such a high profile announcment. A little hard to see how CDE could pull this off by fall, 2009 with as
PD as the “most open” and Flickr
Scott Leslie tweeted about something I’ve thought about myself many times… Flickr’s lack of a public domain license option. I wrote this message to the Flickr team. If you share the desire to have a PD license option, drop them