Personalized Learning
Leaders & Laggards: a call to action
The Leaders and Laggards report is an important scorecard showing why, how, and where America is losing the education race. We pride ourselves on innovation but this report suggests there isn’t much of that in education. A bipartisan group of think tanks scored states on school management, finance,…
Personalized Learning
Online Com/Tech College Enrollments Grow
This story about increased online community college enrollment in Louisiana is interesting for a couple reasons: 1. Online Community and Technical College enrollment jumped 43%-a combination of more courses and worse economy. 2. Students and colleges saved money learning online. 3. Increased ability to take CC…
Personalized Learning
Digital IQ may help plug the Ingenuity Gap
Can web-smart agencies and organizations solve our big problems?
EdTech
Videos: The First TEDxNYED in March
I took a look at some of the videos put up by the organizers of TEDxNYED. It's pretty clear that the web and its followers are moving faster than our schools.
EdTech
Khush CEO Asks, ‘Can Tech Transform Education?’
This week on TechCrunch, Khush CEO Prerna Gupta joined us in scratching our heads over the questions: Why has education fallen so behind other industries in technology adoption? Why is higher education overvalued?
Personalized Learning
A Letter to Principals About Levers
Principals have seven historical improvement levers: culture, goals, instruction, materials, hiring, parents, and partners. Blended learning is an emerging lever that creates new degrees of freedom
Leadership
Good Work: Serving Ideas
Think of the young people that go to Washington DC as the Cognitive Corps—working in service of an idea or ideal. Advocacy work is an attempt to make a difference at scale. If there is any success, it will be delayed gratification. But for the right cause, it is work worth doing.
Personalized Learning
“The Reading Room” Premieres on EdReach.us
“With voices from Subtext, TechSmith, and especially the classroom leaders, EdReach is growing a unique network of innovators, giving educators a place to listen and learn. We’re democratizing professional development.”
Personalized Learning
Why the Next Four Years Will Be Better
The shift to digital learning is a bigger deal than the printing press and it will happen in a decade rather than a century. It’s the best shot we have at boosting achievement and access to quality. And, behind the scenes, it’s rapid and efficient learning that is driving a new wave of corporate competitiveness that make the economy of the next four years better than most people think.
Personalized Learning
To Critics Who Know Better than Parents
Well intentioned critics want to help parents make choices, but its tough to do without erecting barriers.