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.
Charter Schools Still Getting Fewer Dollars
In certain "focus" school districts, public schools receive about $3,727 more per student than charter schools.
Different Country, Different Apps
Using technology to play music is a lesson first in how to use technology, but second, in how to do what the rest of the world is doing.
Five Consequences of the NY Charter Cap Lift
An examination of what it really means that the charter cap legislation has passed in New York.
Community Wise, Charter Strong
Dirk Tillotson, Director of the New Schools Incubator Program for the New York Charter Schools Association talks with edReformer about the process of building schools and communities.
The Edu-Innovation Opportunity
A reporter asked me “what went wrong with the small schools idea?” It’s odd question because all the networks developing highly effective new schools—KIPP, Achievement First, Success Network, Green Dot, Alliance and dozens more—still use the tried and true rule of thumb of 100 students per grade. The better…
Iterative Development
Qualcom technologist Marie Bjerede wonders if the top-down reform model doesn’t work, why there’s not more iterative development: In the software world, we address this dilemma through an iterative development model. That is, we assume that when we are thinking about what users might need or how they will…