Arne Duncan makes a startling admission: online learning doesn't work
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At the conclusion of the NBC Education Nation conference in New York today, writer William Doyle (co-author with James Meredith of A MISSION FROM GOD) asked U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan a question involving billions of dollars of taxpayer funds.
The video below is hard to hear, but here is a transcript of the substance of the conversation, which began before the video rolled:
Doyle: "Are you aware of the fact that your own What Works Clearinghouse [U.S. Department of Education research department] has found virtually no [K-8] technology interventions with solid evidence of academic benefit [exception: special needs and distance learners]?"
Secretary Duncan: "We're nuts on that. We've gotta fix it. It's a big problem. John Easton runs the IESD, have
The video below is hard to hear, but here is a transcript of the substance of the conversation, which began before the video rolled:
Doyle: "Are you aware of the fact that your own What Works Clearinghouse [U.S. Department of Education research department] has found virtually no [K-8] technology interventions with solid evidence of academic benefit [exception: special needs and distance learners]?"
Secretary Duncan: "We're nuts on that. We've gotta fix it. It's a big problem. John Easton runs the IESD, have
