EdTech

Don't Discount the Online Student

A conversation with Robin Gonzalez, Manager of 100 Chicago Public School Virtual Schools about the role that online learning already plays in urban students' lives. "You can have this crazy idea one day and you can actually make it happen, and there are no barriers.”

EdTech

Hacking Tools, Please

Those quick and nimble angel investors and VC firms -- are they really that quick and nimble? Or is the new metaphor for investing in education a stone mason, pounding away at a slab of granite?

EdTech

Online in Rhode Island

A quick interview with Deborah Gist, Rhode Island's Commissioner of Education about online learning and new budgeting strategies for the state.

Personalized Learning

School Finance Fix

School finance is convoluted and ineffective. The fix: 1) money should follow kids to best options, 2) low income kids should get more money, and 3) funding should be flexible and outcome oriented.

EdTech

Pathways in Lincoln Land

Three bright minds at the Illinois Policy Institute luncheon put it all together: pathways to success; individualized learning; student-centric thoughtfulness in education reform.