Are formative assessments disrupting summative tests?
Rabid debates about testing—what we test, how often, and the consequences thereof—are not new and are growing ever louder this year. As states continue to […]
Rabid debates about testing—what we test, how often, and the consequences thereof—are not new and are growing ever louder this year. As states continue to […]
Nov 24, 2014
Thousands of school districts across America—over 75 percent by some estimates—are awakening to the possibilities of blended learning. Most commonly they’re chasing the goal of […]
Nov 21, 2014
Are new software platforms revving the engine of competency-based blended learning? This week, Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) released a comprehensive summary of Spark, a […]
Oct 15, 2014
This blog originally appeared here on The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) ed.review’s edudebate series on assessment titled “What Alternatives to Standardized Testing?” Testing […]
Oct 7, 2014
Exciting news hit the presses early last week—the XPrize is funding its first edtech competition. The goal: to handsomely reward the team that develops the […]
Sept 30, 2014
In the education sector, we love standards. We have academic standards like the Common Core that define what students need to know as they progress […]
Aug 27, 2014
Why are schools going blended? The answer is certainly mixed depending on whom you talk to. In some senses it doesn’t matter—whether it’s to increase […]
July 2, 2014
Last week, we published the first paper in a two-part series on competency-based education. That paper investigates what competency-based education means in practice in New […]
May 16, 2014
This week the U.S. Department of Education’s Privacy Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) released new guidance regarding how schools and districts should protect student data when […]
Feb 28, 2014
In the last few years, a handful of states (Florida, Texas, Utah, Michigan, and Louisiana) have pioneered a new breed of education policies called ‘course […]
Jan 23, 2014