Beacon School of Excellence Goes All Out to Improve Students
The state standardized tests start today in New York City. How is one lower-income school in Brooklyn making sure its students are acing exams? Dentists.
Advance Innovative Education Considering Performance Pay for Major Certification Drive
The mission of Advance Innovative Education is to place excellent professionals in the Louisiana school systems to benefit low-income and disadvantaged youth. One of the ways AIE CEO Kristy Hebert is doing this is through performance incentives.
ABCTE Highlighted in US News & World Report
There are probably a lot of frustrated people out of work in America, who want to do something good for their community. They should think about ABCTE.
NYC $22 Mln Windfall Gives Online Access to Poor Students? Not Really.
But is this an award to benefit education, or a slick new proposal set to increase capacity for broadband suppliers?
Metacog: Management, Mode, Motivation, Mastery
Learning to learn: becoming metacognitive of management, mode, motivation, and leading to mastery
Innovation Stack
Big partnerships for learning mash-up space & app store based on research and open API data/assmt/content
Interview: Inigral CEO Michael Staton
It's not that students don't care, it's that they are producing work that nobody cares about. -- Michael Staton, CEO, Inigral
Jaime Casap, Google Education Evangelist
@jcasap makes a great point, and I wonder if it means we keep kids from finding future collaborators while in school.
Interview: Chad Ratliff, Albermarle County Public Schools
Chad Ratliff, Assistant Director of Instruction and Innovation Projects at Albermarle County Public Schools.
The American Public Obsolescence System
American public education has "issues." The most amazing thing about public education is how long we've been able to keep this downward trudge into obsolescence going, without relief.