Are you ever too old to disrupt? What Penn Foster has been up to
You might be surprised to hear that more than 20,000 students graduated in 2014 with high school diplomas from a 125-year-old school based in Scranton, […]
You might be surprised to hear that more than 20,000 students graduated in 2014 with high school diplomas from a 125-year-old school based in Scranton, […]
Jan 28, 2015
With the rise of blended learning, skeptics are quick to point out why children may miss out if some of their learning happens in front […]
Jan 23, 2015
Last week the Louisiana Department of Education announced that the state’s Course Choice program, originally created back in 2012, has seen a major boost in […]
Jan 14, 2015
This blog was adapted from a brief presentation I gave at the North Carolina New Schools and The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation daylong workshop, […]
Dec 19, 2014
This week marks National Computer Science Education Week. Not only are K–12 schools, parents, and leaders around the country engaged in activities like the Hour […]
Dec 10, 2014
Two years ago we published a short case study on the digital learning efforts afoot in Rhode Island. In it we summarized the Rhode Island […]
Dec 5, 2014
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
Over the past several weeks I’ve attended a number of conferences where competency-based (or mastery-based) education was a hot topic. On the whole, there seems […]
Nov 11, 2014
Have you been hearing about ‘personalizing’ education a lot lately? You’re probably not alone. Not only has the term been on the rise for a […]
Oct 28, 2014
Last week the New America Foundation’s Chelsea Wilhelm wrote about a startling trend in state education technology planning: by and large, it’s not happening. As […]
Oct 21, 2014