Software vendors shouldn’t ignore the groundwork for edtech
This week at the ASU+GSV conference—an enormous education innovation Summit held each year in Phoenix—Evan Marwell, founder of Education Superhighway, gave a lecture in a […]
Apr 25, 2014
Author: juliaf
How laws (and judges) contemplate innovation
People working in education policy often talk about the virtues of “opening up” space for innovation. Besides overtures of deregulation, this effort often manifests in […]
Apr 15, 2014
Will Youth CareerConnect disrupt or sustain?
Late last year I wrote about the potential for Federal Youth CareerConnect grants to spur competency-based models in high schools and communities. This week, President […]
Apr 9, 2014
Alternatives to the traditional
Two weeks ago, Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Joshua P. Starr unveiled a detailed strategic plan for overhauling the county’s struggling alternative school program. The […]
Mar 14, 2014
Improving information access or expanding students’ social capital?
Education technology stands to more efficiently expand not just what you know, but whom you know. Technology may be a tool to impart skills and […]
Mar 7, 2014
Is guidance enough?
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
What are we using technology to scale?
As blended learning gains greater traction across the country, conversations around blended learning sometimes tend toward celebrating what technology can do rather than what it […]
Feb 21, 2014
Can pre-K blaze the way to disruption?
Pre-K is getting a lot of media attention lately, whether it’s De Blasio’s call for tax increases to fund pre-K in New York City, states […]
Feb 11, 2014
Illuminating federal barriers to competency-based education
A new paper out this week titled, A K-12 Federal Policy Framework for Competency Education, helps to highlight how federal education law stymies competency-based learning. […]
Feb 4, 2014
Going deeper or going further: Where students advance in competency-based models
The crux of competency-based education is that students advance only upon mastery. This is a deeply logical approach to unlock each individual student’s ability to […]
Jan 29, 2014