Pathbrite and readImagine: the cool ideas that didn’t get on the TODAY Show
Even if you didn’t see the TODAY show las
Who said it? Teachers Union Leader or Ed Tech Entrepreneur?
Even a handful of years ago, the scene would have been improbable: the leaders of the two major teachers unions sitting down to a serious conversat
What America thinks about education, 2012 edition
There’s a big problem with public education in this country, but it doesn’t affect my kid. If you had to boil down this year’s PDK Gallup poll – probably the most influential survey of American attitudes on education – down to a sentence, that might be it. But there’s much more to learn here, particularly […]
What does a moon shot in education mean?
Lately, leaders seeking to describe a bold effort to make massive change have used the metaphor of the moon shot, notably including Arne Duncan, ea
Bill Clinton takes on innovation in education at KIPP’s Summit
Bill Clinton’s best speeches invariably are the ones where he travels easily and expertly between disciplines and fields of ideas. On Thursday, Clinton gave one of those stunners, at the KIPP School Summit in Orlando, Florida. KSS, as it’s typically called, brings together thousands of teachers from throughout KIPP—the biggest high-performing charter network in […]
Teachers, Reformers and the “Real Fight”
Education reform hardly qualifies as the
Who’s an Education Entrepreneur?
Jason Tomassini, a talented scribe who’s just joined the ink-stained ranks at Ed Week,
Summit 2012
“While the achievement gap between white and black students has narrowed significantly over the past few decades, the gap between rich and poor students has grown substantially during the same period… [Between 1970 and 2007,] the achievement gap by income had grown by 40 percent … while the gap between white and black students, regardless […]
Grading the New York Times on Education Technology
This morning, the New York Times had the latest in its occasional
#takethetest
It’s not often that I wake up in the morning, read the blogs, and find a whole lot of common ground with Valerie Strauss’s “