EdTech
Education Technology is a multi-billion dollar sector of companies innovating in both software and hardware for teaching, learning, and running schools, districts, and state and federal education departments. We document some of the most essential technical innovations and companies that support learning, teaching and more.
Interview: Joel Rose, CEO, School of One
Behind the School of One method is a drive for better use of data by teachers and giving students and teachers what they need to deliver excellence in a STEM silo of education.
Group Knowledge as a Byproduct of a Distributed Organization
Blogging is an active learning process found in blended learning. With blogging, you combine active search for information with the discovery of new friends and information sharing networks that broaden your mind.
We Need New Routes to Teacher Certification
Alternative teacher certification is no longer a badly maligned idea. New York State and other areas are pushing ahead to bring different skills into our nation's public schools.
Interview: Steven Adamowski, Superintendent, Hartford Public Schools
Steven Adamowski agreed to answer a few questions from edReformer about the district's policies on education, improvement and raising the standards for excellence in its schools.
SIIA Releases Evaluation Research Guidelines for EdTech
A new report by SIIA helps educators make decisions about interventions.
Video Comment: Congressman George Miller
Congressman George Miller says we need evidence to show who is a good teacher, and who is not performing. We can't compare right now.
Congressman George Miller's Comments
Congressman George Miller thanks the ed reform community for what they have done and says that ed ventures are a "resource" that must go back to the districts to set the pace of change.
Arne Duncan and George Miller Conversation
Secretary for Education Arne Duncan sat down for a conversation with Congressman George Miller, Chairman, Committee on Education and Labor. Follow edNews and get the quotes.
Video Interview: Michelle Rhee, Chancellor, District of Columbia Public Schools
After her message to education reformers that they should not be timid, Michelle Rhee tells edReformer that collaboration only works when the aim is to stop harming children.
Video Testimony: Marc Magee, COO, CONNCan
After the interview Magee told me that states are actually starting to contact him to get going on this initiative. And his earlier idea to pursue the Acela Corridor is evolving into looking at states like Indiana.