The Last Union Stand?
Union days of wielding power may be numbered; techno panels; Bloomberg praising teachers (well, some of them); new education web sites; policy support; training teachers; student progress; community college all the rage; Bill and Melinda Gates put money into completion rates
Fix or Replace Federal Education Policy?
The Department of Education has an assignment that’s about five years late: reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA, called No Child Left Behind by 43). It’s a difficult assignment that requires collaboration of the contentious—to have good chance of passing Summer 2010, it would require the unions…
Google Building Digital Learning Apps
Google, Apple, News Corp. and education entrepreneurs are making 2011 the year of digital learning. Which policy makers will lead the way as well?
EdTech 10: What’s Trending
Even with a shortened holiday week there is plenty of news to share! This week's top 10 list shares massive changes in the ways we learn, design our schools, teach, and provide high quality education at scale.
Charter Schools Lack Autonomy to Get Stuff Done, Says Thomas Fordham Institute
The Thomas Fordham Institute has come out with their newest study on charter schools.
Advancing Leadership: 500 Leaders & Counting
Community leadership development programs build the fabric of great communities.
Part 1: To Personalize Learning, First Personalize Teaching
The irony is hardly lost on anyone when at education-related professional conferences educators sit in the audience as experts lecture them about how to teach as a guide-on-the-side rather than a sage-on-the stage. A “do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do” moment that often has even the lecturer chuckling.
Making All Things New: The Work of Reconciliation
We enter this season of reconciliation with new humility, a sense of individual and communal fragility and turn to the wisdom that came before.
Why the Feds Matter Less
Despite a dysfunctional do-nothing congress, the learning revolution will march on quickly and quietly creating new options for students and families.
Indiana School District Replaces Textbooks With 1:1 Laptop Program
The New York Times published an article this week on the traditional Indiana School District's switch to a 1:1 laptop program, which replaced textbooks for 2,600 students in Muster, Ind. The school district replaced all its math and science textbooks for students in grades 5-12 with a $1.1 million project for digital learning infrastructure in a new 1:1 laptop program.