Politics & Policy

It's an election year, and the Faction of ultra-conservatives on the Texas Board of Education could be poised to tumble from a near-majority-with-several-likely-swing-votes to a small minority. While the New York Times and others have picked up this story, a quieter but far more epic change is already shifting the ground beneath the educational publishing industry and the Texas adoption game.

Here's another shift that only adds to my last three posts about tipping points in the instructional materials industry. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has announced the results of a new massive meta-study here. The gist of it is that online learning works better than face-to-face instruction.