Live from Summit 2013 – Sec. Duncan’s Keynote
We are honored to have U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan as the Summit 2013 keynote speaker. Appointed in 2009 by President Barack Obama, Secretary Duncan came to Washington after overseeing one of the nation’s largest and most complex urban school districts – Chicago Public Schools. Leading the Obama Administration’s education policy agenda, Secretary Duncan first made his mark on the system helping to drive progressive change in states across the nation through the Race to the Top competition.
Live from Summit 2013: “It’s Time to Give Up On…” and “The Common Core is Coming!”
Our first sessions of the morning kicked off with a discussion called “It’s time to give up on ____ and replace it with ___.”
Live from Summit 2013 – Innovation in the Education Market?
Coming to you from Summit 2013’s panel discussion “How the Education Market Will Kill Your Innovation.”
Live from Summit 2013– Hour of Power One
Welcome to Summit 2013’s first Hour of Power networking session. As conference participants power network over a cup of coffee sharing bus
Live from Summit 2013: Opening Plenary
Ted Mitchell kicked off Summit 2013 this morning at the opening plenary. After welcoming all of the attendees, Ted was joined by Thomas Friedman, author and columnist for the The New York Times, who has been “calling consistently for the change that drives our work…and sets the national dialogue about who we are as a country.”
2013 NewSchools Venture Fund Portfolio Award Winners
While more than 900 supporters of entrepreneurial change in public education gather today at the annual NewSchools Summit in Burlingame, CA, we are proud to announce the recipients of our annual awards. These awards are designed to recognize and celebrate the remarkable achievements of this important class of social innovators, who are making a difference in the lives of students in underserved communities across the country and changing the national conversation about what’s possible in public education.
Bipartisan Bill Seeks to Remake Teacher Training Programs
Teacher training programs would be held accountable for producing educators who demonstrate the ability to boost student achievement befo
Nick Ehrmann’s Rethinking Human Capital in Technology–Based Education
In his response to last week’s NewSchools Summit, Nick Ehrmann of Blue Engine gives a warning to those who would believe that ed tech will accelerate
Guest Post: The NewSchools Summit: Ringing in change
By Elizabeth Corcoran, Co-founder, EdSurge Telltale signs of an industry starting to gel seemed everywhere at the NewSchools Venture Fund’s annual meeting this past week in Burlingame: Young—and over-caffeinated—entrepreneurs sporting “edupreneur” tee-shirts faced off in an “American Idol” like recital of business plans. Potential investors with expensive shoes and iPads lingered in receptions, swapping business […]
Guest Post: Transforming education faster bottom-up instead of top-down
By Tory Gattis, Social Systems Architect and Founder of OpenTeams This post is an attempt to introduce some controversial buzz into the conversations at the summit: Is it possible our whole approach to reforming education is wrong? And by wrong, I don’t mean failing – great things are definitely happening – but wrong in the sense […]