Improving Schools in the US

In view of the urgency of improving education in the US, some innovations are receiving special attention.

http://www.kipp.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Is_Power_Program

http://schoolofone.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_one
http://larrycuban.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/progressives-at-war-in-schools-and-classrooms/
http://www.ctmirror.org/story/11492/innovation

http://www.carpediemschools.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpe_Diem_e-Learning_Community


Fixing our schools (Juan Williams)
http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/08/17/sneak-peek-fox-news-reporting-investigates-how-to-fix-americas-schools/
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-news-reporting/transcript/fox-news-reporting-fixing-our-schools

Everything you've heard about failing schools is wrong (Mother Jones)
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2012/08/mission-high-false-low-performing-school

Best Websites for Teaching and Learning
http://www.ala.org/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/bestlist/bestwebsitestop25

Project-Based Learning
http://www.bie.org/

Videos
http://amplify.com/company#intro
http://schoolofone.org/concept_introvideos.html?playVideo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s_O65rWV10  (Carpe Diem)

Related
http://amplify.com/
http://www.newclassrooms.org/
http://www.ck12.org/