Posts by Tom Vander Ark
State Edu-Leaders: Please Don’t Screw Up the Next Decade of Testing
State education leaders need to be thinking about students of the future, students of the present headed for a college-ready future, and the testing and assessment practices of the future that can be implemented today.
More Productivity: Sooner Rather Than Later
Our schools need to be more productive--educationally and operationally. The proposed jobs bill just postpones the transition to more learning online.
The Blended Solution to the Root Canal
Education is going to become more expensive, so we need to invest in ways to bring more students into channels for success at greater speed and at lower costs. Online blended learning provides an answer.
Sleepless in Seattle…and NYC, San Francisco
Students deserve a generation of tools that make learning engaging, personalized, and effective. That's why it would be really great if i3 were venture investing.
NYC: Hub of the Learning Revolution
Yesterday I attended the NYC Symposium for Social Change. The focus was impact investing. My friends from City Light Capital made the case for investing with a high bar for return and social benefit. Seth Pinsky, NYC EcoDevo, made the case for NYC global hub for the innovation economy and…
WI Welfare is to LA Edu-Employment Bargain?
All Hess all day at EdReformer. In addition to his greenfield article debuting today, Rick wrote an EdWeek tome yesterday bemoaning all the things that could go wrong with rapidly drafted laws the goal of improving teacher evaluation and winning a RttT grant. As he loves to do, Hess…
Supporting Aggressive Reform: The Arne Duncan Case for Change
National Journal takes up the apparent dichotomy in Race to the Top applications between support vs. aggressive plans.
The Five Great Reforms
Inventing the education system our children deserve requires five great reforms
Dropping a Bomb Before National Charter Schools Week
Ironic that Stephanie Strom dropped a bomb on Imagine the week before National Charter School Week, don't you think?
Reality Bites: Struggle to Convert Teacher Effectiveness Promises to Policies
If states can pass laws that increase the effective use of data in education, it would set the stage for an ESEA re-authorization that supports good teachers and builds a schools system we can trust.