Beware of taking flexibility a step too far
At its best, online learning can catalyze new heights of flexibility—in path, pace, place, space, and teacher-student interactions—amidst an education landscape that has long looked […]
At its best, online learning can catalyze new heights of flexibility—in path, pace, place, space, and teacher-student interactions—amidst an education landscape that has long looked […]
Mar 11, 2016
Last week economist Susan Dynarski published a pithy and compelling op-ed in the New York Times calling for the additional supports needed to get low-income […]
Mar 1, 2016
Last week, Hillary Clinton’s campaign proposed a $2 billion plan to reform K–12 school disciplinary practices. The plan marks a crucial effort to both ameliorate […]
Feb 26, 2016
Last month, Nat Malkus of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) published a study on the trends in Advanced Placement course offerings in public schools from […]
Feb 16, 2016
As more states gear up for online testing regimes, state agencies and advocacy groups are flocking to support digital infrastructure and learning. For example, in […]
Feb 10, 2016
This week, President Obama announced that he would call for a $4 billion dollar commitment in his 2017 budget to bring computer science education to K-12 […]
Feb 3, 2016
As more and more school systems across the country explore “going competency-based,” we need to be attentive to the processes that will actually allow such […]
Jan 26, 2016
Late last year, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, announced they are starting a private PK–8 school in East Palo Alto, Calif. Chan will […]
Jan 12, 2016
Last month, the Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS) in New Hampshire launched a new set of pathways for students. Although proponents of personalized learning […]
Dec 14, 2015
For years there’s been consensus that we need to hit refresh on the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Congress is now considering a […]
Dec 8, 2015