Recognizing innovation and impact: the NewSchools Summit 2010 Awards
By Julie Petersen in Summit onWhile much of the NewSchools Summit focuses on charting a path forward and taking a hard, critical look at the challenges…
Breakout Session #2: Messages, Media, and Mindshare
By Julie Petersen in Summit onAs Walter Isaacson shared with the audience during the morning session at the NewSchools Summit, the world needs more…
Guest post: Going to NewSchools
By Julie Petersen in Summit onThis guest post comes from Andrew Rotherham of Bellwether Education Partners, the voice behind the must-read education blog Eduwonk.com and a prolific…
Teaching as Entrepreneurship?
By Julie Petersen in Uncategorized onOver lunch at the NewSchools Community of Practice event this afternoon, Teach For America’s Steven Farr, author of Teaching…
Inventing the future: students and technology
By Julie Petersen in Uncategorized on"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." – computer scientist Alan KayGoogle founders Sergey Brin and…
Guest post: Closing the Achievement Gap – The Edupreneur Way
By Julie Petersen in Policy and Politics onThis guest post was written by Ellen Winn of the Education Equality Project, a national, bipartisan advocacy organization dedicated…
Fueling the entrepreneurial fire
By Julie Petersen in Uncategorized onIn a new Education Next article excerpted from his latest book, education scholar Rick Hess recounts the skepticism that…
Guest post: Out of the shadows
By Julie Petersen in Uncategorized onThis guest post is from Bill Jackson, founder and CEO of GreatSchools, who was one of the very first…
Guest post: Time to get TEACHED
By Julie Petersen in Uncategorized onThis guest post is from filmmaker Kelly Amis of Loudspeaker Films, who will be a speaker at NewSchools Summit 2010. TEACHED…
Telling stories with letters and pixels
By Julie Petersen in Summit onAll eyes are on education entrepreneurs these days. Parents and communities are watching to see whether chronically failing schools…
Guest Post: Of Evaluation and Transparency
By Julie Petersen in Uncategorized onOur latest guest blog post comes from Rick Hess, Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy Studies at the…
Guest Post: School Models That Work for Boys
By Julie Petersen in Uncategorized onOur latest guest blog post comes from Richard Whitmire, former editorial board writer for USA Today and the blogger…
Guest Post: Beware interest-group-itis
By Julie Petersen in Uncategorized onOur latest guest blog post comes from Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, who has logged time…
Guest Post: Edu-Innovation, an Oxymoron?
By Julie Petersen in Uncategorized onAs we edge closer to NewSchools Summit 2010, we will be featuring a series of guest blog posts from…
