1:1 Dialog
The education transition from print to digital is complicated. DLC advisors weigh in.
Josh Jarrett: Snr. Program Officer, Gates Foundation
Josh Jarret explains the vision for public education that is being forged by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In this interview, he lists some points for how technology can help transform public delivery of education and invites feedback on how that will work.
Tech Improves Learning and Saves Money
Well implemented technology pays off with improved learning, climate, and cost savings.
Vying for Seven State Super Slots November 2
Is ed reform tearing the Democratic Party asunder; seven state super slots up for grabs this November 2; DOE soliciting for opinions; value added teachers in New York; Rhode Island braces for budgeting cutbacks
WGU Growing 30% Annually
WGU is advancing affordable high quality competency-based education—and it’s starting to catch on.
Newark Struggles in Graduation and College Achievement
According to outgoing Newark Superintendent Clifford Janey, "Only slightly more than half (52 percent) of our students graduate high school within four years, based on the new, more accurate graduation rate adopted by National Governors Association." See a report inside that details statistics about Newark's school and student achievement.
Maximizing Potential of All Students
Are KIPP Schools really "drill and kill" factories that drive students to exhaustion. Not really, despite contentions that this is what makes some of them so successful. Here is a column from Jay Matthews, via an email from Whitney Tilson, philanthropist and ed reformer.
All Kids Should Think Like Scientists
Every secondary student should participate in an annual science fair and show what they know.
Advancing a Global Learning Agenda
Arne Duncan is saying that educational advances in other countries do not necessarily equate to an American loss at home, or abroad. Rather, advances and innovations are win-win solutions for an entire global architecture. The Digital Learning Council has a sense of this kind of change coming, and is working hard to help states advance a roadmap to get there.
Content Filtering in a Digital Age
Perhaps because it is taking an intellectual and analytical examination of policy, a recent article fails to mention that there are LMSs on the market now that address privacy and content concerns for students, and they do so in such a way that they give a lot of control and leverage to the teacher, who can choose exactly what and how he or she wants the kids to interact online.