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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Video Testimonies: Dave Anderson and Laurel Dumont
Dave Anderson from Headsprout and Laurel Dumont from The Center for Collaborative Change tell edReformer what they are doing in education.
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Walter Isaacson, Ted Mitchell: New Chances, New Stories
Ted Mitchell follows Walter Isaacson in today's opening of the NewSchools Venture Fund Summit and says we must be activated to change.
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@NewSchools Summit, Three Reasons We Can Never Turn Off the Web
At the first day of the NewSchools Venture Fund Summit, a question about schools being safe havens from the wired and wireless world made me think of the three reasons we cannot steer kids from a wired learning environment.
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Obama: Each American Has a Responsibility to Ensure Every Student Succeeds
President Barack Obama made this statement, which I think holds true for ed reformers: “The elemental test of any democracy is whether people with differing points of view can learn from each other and work with each other and find a way forward together.
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Interview: Kelly Amis, Director, TEACHED
Kelly Amis discusses what she learned about public education from being a founding corps member of Teach for America and the Director of TEACHED, a new movie about the impact of unions on the quality of education.