Initial commitments to 100Kin10 will increase supply, retain excellence, build the movement.
In an effort to increase the supply of new math and science teachers and retain excellent teachers currently in the classroom, a group of 28 educational and corporate…
Their handshake added an unexpected jolt to the closing session of the New Schools Venture Fund summit in San Francisco last month, and with good reason. Acting Chancellor Kaya Henderson and Reed Hastings, Netflix co-founder and charter entrepreneur, sealed a…
NewSchools Partner Jim Peyser will be inducted into the National Charter School Hall of Fame at the 2011 National Charter Schools Conference in Atlanta, in recognition for his achievements as an education pioneers.
One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy. That statement was true 30 years ago, when the Apple II was introduced into schools and I…
I felt a lot less melancholy about the future of US public education after having coffee a few days ago with Joel Rose, the founder of the path-breaking New York City experiment called School of One.
No one seems to have much love for the No Child Left Behind Act these days. But everyone seems to agree on the best feature of the law: Schools now have to show how student subgroups that historically were ignored…
