Partisanship is Ruining Public Education
Polarization is bad for our kids. The solution set is pretty clear: growth oriented policies: low tax rates, transparent and efficient government, and an opportunity platform that includes effective education and health services and efficient energy and transportation infrastructure. That means giving up some luxuries of the past, investing where it will pay off, and treating each other with some common courtesy.
Hillary’s Graduation Success Story
AdvancePath Academics, Inc., a national provider of alternative learning environments for at-risk high school students, works in partnership with School Districts across the U.S. AdvancePath has proudly supported the mission of the San Juan Unified School District since 2010, with the opening of its first Academy at Encina Preparatory High School. This Q&A reveals Hillary Brandt's graduation success story.
10 Must-Haves to Lift Us from the Grading Quagmire
Converting existing schools to a competency-based environment can be a monumental challenge. At the top of the list of controversial items is grading—the old A-F system imprinted in our brains. There are 10 edtech advances that will help make the competency-based environments easier to manage.
Q&A: Language Skills Are Critical In Today’s World
Judy Verses, Rosetta Stone's President of Global Institutions, joins us today to explore the pertinence of bilingualism and language learning in today's global market, national economy and more. Verses currently overseas corporate, government, non-profit and education business for the company worldwide. Prior to working at Rosetta Stone, Verses served as the President and Chief Client Officer for Global Sales and Marketing at the K-12 edtech company Blackboard.
What’s Your Main Purpose For Blended Learning?
What's your main purpose for blended learning? Is it improving learning resources efficiency/cost and time/access? Or is it improving the learning itself? Much of the attention and excitement about blended learning is on the former, with time-and-motion descriptions of where the teacher, the student, and the computer exist during the day.
Teacher Training & the Push for Online Education
One thing is certain, technology in the classroom is here to stay. Over time, innovative teaching strategies will develop, best practices will offer guidance and education itself will become richer and more rewarding.
Telepractice Brings Online Speech Services to School Districts of all Sizes
In the face of continuing budget and staffing challenges, many districts are finding that live online speech therapy (or telepractice) helps them deploy their special education staff more efficiently, improve students’ IEP outcomes and save on costs. Telepractice can augment districts’ staffing for speech-language pathology services and enables them to cope with acute and chronic shortages of speech language pathologists (SLPs).
7 EdTech Rules for the Developing World
Brookings recently released a paper on international education. A New Face of Education: Bringing Technology Into The Classroom in the Developing World was written by Rebecca Winthrop from Brookings and Mike Smith, a four-timer at US ED and former education director at Hewlett Foundation. The authors offer seven principle for smart use of technology in education.
A Tale of 5 Cities: Portfolio Strategy Revisited
Neerav Kingsland considered reforms in Memphis, New Orleans, Newark, Philadelphia, and Washington DC and concluded cities that develop charter districts, devote significant resources to human capital, and thoughtfully regulate charter authorization will outperform everyone else. He's right
6 Digital Learning Accelerants
6 digital learning accelerants: learning platform ecosystems, state leadership, high performing blended learning schools, evidence, barrier reduction, and state assessments