Career & Technical Ed
economic mobility
EdTech
No Cost. No Catch. How One Company Hopes to Close the Achievement Gap
By: Lucy Kosturko. Educational agencies talk a lot about achievement gaps. One emerging factor--technology--has shown both positive and negative effects, which begs the question: Do EdTech solutions run the risk of widening the achievement gap by widening the opportunity gap?
Leadership
Why We Should Worry Less About the Achievement Gap
We need to revolutionize math perceptions if we want to close the experience gap and eliminate its most evident symptom: the achievement gap.
Leadership
Education as a Public Good
The emerging vision for learning as a service is requiring more learner and parent decisions than ever. So, with all of the individual choices, how do we protect and advance the public good? The answer to this important question has eight implications for state and local policymakers.
Ed Policy
iNACOL Report: Online Learning Can Close The Opportunity Gap
A new iNACOL policy brief provides an overview of Course Access as a state policy solution to opportunity and achievement gaps in K-12 education.
Personalized Learning
Now Is the Time: Leveraging Technology to Close Achievement Gaps
Turnaround efforts are hard work. It takes a mindset of constant improvement to get academic traction and find the right mix and placement of blended learning supports for students and teachers.
Personalized Learning
What are Teachers Responsible For?
Where does the current emphasis on accountability come from? I think it comes from a desperate need for equity and justice – from the awareness that has been raised by the national high-stakes testing of students that there is a very real and tragic difference in the outcomes of poor students versus those that are more affluent.
Uncategorized
AEE Digital Learning Policy Recommendations and Promising Practices
AEE released their newest policy brief titled “Digital Learning and Technology: Federal Policy Recommendations to Seize the Opportunity– and Promising Practices That Inspire Them”, supporting the increased development and implementation of digital learning initiatives in K-12 education.
EdTech
AEE Digital Learning Policy Recommendations and Promising Practices
AEE released their newest policy brief titled "Digital Learning and Technology: Federal Policy Recommendations to Seize the Opportunity-- and Promising Practices That Inspire Them", supporting the increased development and implementation of digital learning initiatives in K-12 education.
EdTech
Holiday Gift Idea for the edReformers on your List
Here's an idea for the edReformer on your list: Stacey Childress's book, Leading for Equity: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Montgomery County Public Schools. It came out last year, but in case you missed it -- it is also in paperback
Personalized Learning
The Achievement Recession
Stagnant US achievement levels impose the equivalent of another big recession. Our kids will be the first to see lower levels of prosperity and the slide continues until we confront the PISA reality that we're being out educated.