Can technology solve the achievement gap?
One of the biggest challenges the U.S. education system faces is ensuring that all children have the opportunity to receive a high-quality education. The reality […]
One of the biggest challenges the U.S. education system faces is ensuring that all children have the opportunity to receive a high-quality education. The reality […]
Oct 23, 2015
In early 2015, we teamed up with the Ohio Blended Learning Network and The Learning Accelerator to conduct a statewide survey for the purpose of providing an overview of the blended-learning environment in Ohio. This pap
Oct 15, 2015
As teachers move into blended-learning environments, there is a dearth of resources to support them in the transition. As I wrote a few weeks ago, […]
Sept 30, 2015
Research clearly shows that teachers are the most important school-level factor influencing student achievement. So why does our education system often treat them as commodities? […]
Sept 18, 2015
At the Christensen Institute, we often receive requests from school districts to provide professional development for their teachers. Although our resources are fantastic for giving […]
Sept 2, 2015
It used to be that most devices in schools were desktop machines of either the Windows or Apple varieties, but recently many schools have been […]
Aug 28, 2015
Education Elements, an education consulting company, is one of the pioneers in blended learning. Through its experience working with K–12 schools to create blended-learning programs, […]
Aug 18, 2015
In a recent post, I described a hypothetical model for unbundling the teaching roles of instruction and assessment in order to incorporate rigorous measures of […]
June 26, 2015
When it comes to using technology to improve students’ learning opportunities, Texas is a pioneer. But this legislative season, the Senate made a major blunder […]
June 16, 2015
Although online-learning software can be a powerful enabler of personalized learning, many educators struggle with what they see as learning software’s limited ability to provide […]
June 12, 2015