Posts by Getting Smart Staff
Helping Kids
We interview Clay Whitehead, co-founder of Presence Telecare, a speech therapy distance learning program that helps schools and districts address shortfalls in staffing for excellent speech pathology therapy. Clay will be at the June 8-9 Berkery Noyes VC Investment Summit.
Don't Disrupt, Improve
David Martz, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Muzzy Lane, speaks to edReformer about distribution, the golden egg of edtech. Part of a series of interviews ahead of the Berkery Noyes VC Investment Summit in NYC June 8-9.
Personalized Learning is Ongoing Student-Led Improvement
We talk with Wendy Battino, Co-founder and Executive Director of Re-Inventing Schools Coalition in Alaska as part of our series of leadership interviews prior to the SIIA Personalized Learning Symposium in Boston, Massachusetts August 4-6.
An iPhone OS Lesson for Edu Apps
On our way to solving the $750 billion education applications puzzle, have we stopped to think about whether we are creating more of the same, or new ways of packaging information, that completely alter education deliverables? It's not the latter.
Socioeconomic Impact of Charters in Texas
This article looks at the impact that charter schools have on the development of the economy and the labor force that feeds it.
Edu-Triumvirate: Mobile, Context, Adaptive Curriculum
Lessons in e-learning and blended methods from Hwang Gwo-Jen, Ph.D, Chair Professor, Graduate Institute of Digital Learning and Education, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology and Liu Gi-Zen, Associate Professor, Dept. of Foreign Languages & Literature, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
The Core is Announced
American schools, hopefully, will one day follow an entire common core. With the announcement today in Atlanta, it's clear that not everyone is onboard, and some on board are taking a wait-and-see approach.
Entrepreneurs Fight: Free Enterprise or Social Democracy
Fascinating conversation between Jon Stewart and Arthur Brooks as they talk about the battle over free enterprise or European-style socialism in the United States. The framework here is looking at whether college education erodes entrepreneurial thinking.
The Teacher Salary Project
Here's a brief clip that compares the start of the working day of Jamie, a 1st grade teacher, and Johnathan, a former teacher who now works as a real estate broker.
VC Funding of Ed Set to Boom
VC Investments blogger Rafael Corrales believes VC dollars into education are set to soar, but let's remember there's a bureaucracy set up here.