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Bring Your Own What, and Why?
This article was originally published by Bruce Dixon on the AALF.org Blog. At several recent conferences at which I have been speaking, there has been a lot of interest in the concept of students bringing their own computers, laptops, technology or devices…depending on how you like…
Solutions to Charter Bottlenecks
The number of charter schools continues to expand nationally by about 500 school per year, but growth rates have been dampened by school district push back and the fiscal crisis.
A Letter to Principals About Levers
Principals have seven historical improvement levers: culture, goals, instruction, materials, hiring, parents, and partners. Blended learning is an emerging lever that creates new degrees of freedom
Charter Schools Model the Future
Charter schools are useful models of performance contracting, nonprofit school governance, and soon many will feature well designed blended learning programs.
Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) May Be the Most Important Advocacy Group in America
Education is the issue that will most determine this country's role in the world and DFER is assisting state by state that will determine the quality of education in America.
Online Learning in Danger in WA
The Internet Academy was a leader in the online learning revolution in WA and now online learning may be in danger for all students due to major budget cuts.
Funding Our Students Increases Efficiency
After two days of jury duty and experiencing the justice system, it is evident that the justice system and the education system are similar in the fact that they are optimized around bureaucrats rather than customers. Funding needs to follow the students, not school districts to make our education system more efficient.
Feature School: Northwest Passage
We need to pursue a system of public education that endorses schools like Northwest Passage and that embraces them as part the norm, rather than perpetuate a system that holds them at arm’s length.
Blended learning helps reduce budgets
Ed Week examines specific cost cutting strategies and highlights Rocketship whose blended learning model keeps costs low.
Shut Out of the Military & Other National News
A new report by the Education Trust (led by EEP signatory Kati Haycock), titled “Shut Out of the Military,” finds that too few of our nation’s recent high school graduates – particularly young people of color – have the math, reading, science and problem-solving skills necessary for enlistment in…