Her work, she thinks, is on the frontier of education in a global economy In her dining room, her children sometimes pause beside her as she teaches, and she does not shoo them away.
The next frontier for education reform must be to change this rigid structure by creating personalized learning opportunities for every child and by investing in research to determine which techniques are most effective for different constituencies.
The article "Staking Claims to New Frontiers in Education" (front page, Feb. 27) provided many glowing reviews by educators highly invested in charter schools -- not exactly impartial researchers of this "flourishing movement".
It's also pushing new frontiers in education, entertainment, and health care.
In the last year, London-based TSL Education, spun off from News Corp's News International (where it got its start in the early 1900s and was better known as the Times Educational Supplement), has evolved a lot from its print origins in an effort to better tackle new frontiers in education information.
In December, I continued my conversations with world leaders on the frontiers of education reform.
After five years, one legal defeat and a challenge on the way, Montgomery County, Md., is at the frontier of sex education in the United States.
"With this highly interactive and student-centered design, we want to push the frontiers of online education both for the students in the classroom and for the participants beyond the institution," Harpp says.
Overcoming barriers and enhancing incentives are essential to sustain a research culture and extend the frontiers of medical education.
Health officials say that the lead battle's next frontier may be public education -- teaching people how to avoid or minimize lead hazards, whether these come from environmental exposure in an old neighborhood, or the treats brought back from overseas by a visiting cousin.
