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14 High Schools Worth Visiting
An international school administrator recently wrote on U.S. high schools and education reform. Here, Tom Vander Ark, shares a list of a baker's dozen high schools worth visiting.
EdTech
5 Ways to Enrich Your Classroom Through Parent Engagement
As school budgets suffer cutbacks, educators are tasked with getting more creative in supplementing curriculum with enriching and memorable activities. Engaging parents as partners not only amplifies your resources, but it builds relationships with parents, helps parents demonstrate the value of education, and ultimately influences student success.
Personalized Learning
Grouping, Tracking, & Personalizing
An international educator told me his school community was discussing the "ethics and educational validity of streaming -- deliberately dividing students up into class/work groups based on ability, i.e., a strong and weak group." He asked for my thoughts.
Personalized Learning
Want Engaged Learners? Sign PBL Contracts.
There was a time when my sole purpose for living and breathing, my ultimate dream, was to sign a contract -- a contract to play professional baseball. I simply wanted the opportunity to work hard in order to create a better me for the entire team. “Give me that pen,” I remember thinking. “I’ll sign for a Coke and a smile,” I told anyone who would listen. That day never arrived.
EdTech
NewSchools Highlights Joel Rose & Chris Rush From New Classrooms
NewSchools Venture Fund (NSVF) today highlighted Joel Rose and Chris Rush of New Classrooms Innovation Partners in its recent video series celebrating education entrepreneurs.
Personalized Learning
SMARTtech Roundup: Blended Learning to Big Data
Dell is on the case. The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation is releasing a series of case studies on blended learning models that examine five school and charter management operators' implementation of blended learning. Five organizations across the nation participated in the case studies: Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools, Firstline Schools, KIPP LA, Rocketship Education, and Summit Public Schools. The studies examine each organization's instructional and operational approaches to blended learning, and offer a high-level overview of each model's potential financial implications.
EdTech
NewSchools Venture Fund Spotlights Ralph Bland of New Paradigm for Education
NewSchools Venture Fund (NSVF) today spotlighted Ralph Bland, the founder of New Paradigm for Education (NPfE) in its recent video series celebrating education entrepreneurs.
EdTech
DIY: How to Build Buzz For Your Beta
You've got a great idea. Coders are turning it into reality--at least an early version. You're about ready to release a beta version of your new learning application. How do you create buzz that promotes rapid adoption? We asked some experts.
EdTech
Edtech Startup Leaders Host Virtual Fireside Chat Tonight at 5p.m. PT
Founder Dating, Inc., NewSchools Venture Fund, and Teach for America join together tonight to host a virtual fireside chat to consider wide-ranging questions around education and edtech, a discussion that erupted from a noticeable disconnect between the number of people interested in the space and the access to entrepreneurs building companies on FounderDating.
EdTech
E.L. Haynes: A Force For Change
Jennie Niles started her career as a s cience teacher at the famous Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles. She now leads the equally famous E. L. Haynes Public Charter School in Washington DC. The path in between could not have been better scripted: Yale for graduate school, a state department of education, a foundation, then New Leaders.