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.
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.
Interview: Marc Porter Magee, COO, ConnCAN
Interview with Marc Porter Magee, ConnCAN Chief Operating Officer. Building upon his experience leading the communications, development, research and government affairs teams at ConnCAN, Magee is launching a new venture called 50CAN: The 50-State Campaign for Achievement Now. Starting with a campaign in Rhode Island this spring, 50CAN hopes to reach one-third to one-half of the 50 states by 2015.
Interview: Mike Magee, CEO, Rhode Island Mayoral Academies
We interview Mike Magee, CEO of Rhode Island's Mayoral Academies, a charter school foundation that puts school management in the hands of city mayors.
New Hope for Alternative Teaching Certification?
PBS TeacherLine and NBPTS Offer Six-Week Online Training Course For Educators Who Provide Support To Teachers Pursuing National Board Certification
New Access to Appropriate Lit for Autism Spectrum Students
A seven-week intervention studied 43 students in total, ages 12 to 21, with diverse ethnicities and exceptionalities. The result: appropriate literature for the autism spectrum leads to improvements.
ACTE Creates Outline for "Career Ready"
The Association for Career and Technical Education released a paper today that delineates their ideas on what students need to be career ready.
JD Hoye Taking NAF to Next Level
Sandy Weill can be very persuasive.  About three years ago, a consultant enjoying a Bay Area lifestyle found the former Citi CEO’s pitch good enough to convince her to commute to New York City every week. Sandy formed National Academies Foundation in 1984 (when I was still working in…
Entrepreneur Thinking: What It Is, What It Ain't
My superintendent in the East Village apartment I rent would like me to believe that his solution for the cracks around the somewhat faulty plumbing in my bathroom ceiling and wall is entrepreneurial in its deployment and conceptualization. It most certainly is not. It is not Entrepreneur Thinking to “patch”…