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NewSchools Presents: Eli Kennedy, Kirsten Tobey & Kristin Richmond
NewSchools, a venture fund working to transform education by supporting entrepreneurs, released two more videos today from its Education Entrepreneurs series with opinions, stories and viewpoints from edupreneurs! Today’s videos feature Eli Kennedy, Kristen Tobey and Kristin Richmond. Eli Kennedy Eli Kennedy leads the Pacific…
Connections Learning Partners With Virtual High School
Connections Learning, a K-12 digital learning solutions provider and division of Connections Education, announced today a partnership with Virtual High School (VHS) Global Consortium, a non-profit K-12 online learning and professional development provider, to expand the reach of its core online courses worldwide.
Authorizing High Performance
Paul Hill's Reinventing Public Education Good measures, clear targets, transparent results, and strong authorizing are all key to improving educational outcomes. Effective authorizing is the quality lynchpin to the Digital Learning Now framework which suggests that “States should hold schools and online providers accountable using student learning…
Partnerships Will Unlock Digital Promise
Newt Minnow proposed Digital Promise a decade ago While launching an over due edtech center, Duncan gave a great speech on the power of personal digital learning (I suspect Karen Cator gets most of the credit there). DigitalPromise is supposed to “identify breakthrough technologies, learn faster what’s…
Ed Leaders Meet With Detroit Public Schools On Ed Opportunities & Innovation
Education leaders join tonight at the "Hacking Education" Dinner, hosted by NewSchools Venture Fund, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and the University of Michigan's Social Venture Fund, in Detroit, Michigan.
Pearson Acquires Connections Education
Learning company Pearson announced today that it plans to acquire the virtual public school provider Connections Education, formerly known as Connections Academy.
What the Connections Acquisition Means
Pearson announced today that it acquired Connections Education, a leading national online learning provider. I know both companies well and think this is a great combination. Connections is another success story for Sterling Partners, backers of Laureate, Sylvan. Peter Cohen, President of Pearson’s School Group, came…
Platform-Based School Development
The 1990s brought charter school laws and the New American Schools Development Corporation—both rooted in the standards-movement and based on the hypothesis that there was a better way to organize schools. New Technology High School opened by the Napa School District in 1996. With its first graduating class, it…
The Seven Steps to Becoming a 21st Century School or District
Last summer, as I was winding down my eight years as president of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, I went around the country and met with 30 superintendents, asking them, "What can I do to support your efforts to implement 21st century education in your district?" Together we came up with the idea of creating a professional learning community (PLC) of education leaders committed to 21st century education. A team of us liked the idea so much that earlier this year we launched EdLeader21, a community of education leaders committed to building critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity into their educational system.
Relationships Key to High Quality Online Instruction
Last week we explored the importance of quality content but it is teachers that bring it to life. This week, Digital Learning Now released a video summary of Element #6, high quality instruction.