Flexibility=Failure
Rep Chu and the NEA released a proposal to give free money to failing schools--a bad idea. National Journal carries the debate. My take: SIG should be more not less restrictive if you care about getting low income kids into better educational options ASAP.
Ten Global Trends in ICT and Education
Robert Hawkins, Senior Education Specialist at the World Bank, spoke at the MIT LINC Conference about the 10 global trends in ICT and Education. It's a must see for teachers, edupreneurs, administration and thinkers.
Bill Clinton Asks Yalies to Tidy Up
President Bill Clinton delivers commencement address at Yale over the weekend
By Teachers, For Teachers
Educators 4 Excellence rallies teachers to help create a more fair and equitable education system for our children. We meet guest bloggers Sydney Morris and Evan Stone, founders of Educators 4 Excellence.
Enabling Personalized Learning to Trust the Future
Sir Ken Robinson, a public lecturer and author, says we must enable creativity and risk-taking thinking for our future, because our current education system has trained it out of most present generations.
Not Change for Games, But Games for Change
A non-profit that seeks to use video games to tackle education issues, poverty and human rights is having a four day festival at Parsons School of Design from May 24-27 in New York City.
Ten Things for DQC2.0 to Figure Out
The National Data Quality Campaign made a huge contribution and is now part of federal policy. Given the flood of data from online learning, it's time to start working on DQC2.0.
Mayoral Control Leads to Improvement
They used to say it wouldn't work, but now skeptics of mayoral control are saying maybe Michelle Rhee is correct.
Ten Problems Edupreneurs Must Solve
Tom Vander Ark posts this list of ten issues that education entrepreneurs must solve to make the education marketplace the real deal.
Take This Job and Understand It
Guest blogger Jason T. Bedell, a librarian with a jones for technology, gets ready to leave his library media specialist role in a public school. He leaves his staff and admin with some thoughts about what it really means to mix tech with literacy efforts.