The single best idea for reforming K-12 education
What’s your single best idea for reforming K-12 education? That’s the question that Forbes posed to many of us recently, and as I thought about […]
Sept 15, 2011
Topics: Competency-Based Learning
Playbook for immediate innovation
It’s hard to coach a football game when the players and the playbook are designed for soccer. This is the challenge that superintendents and principals […]
Aug 24, 2011
‘Quality Control in K-12 Digital Learning’: A stimulating, quality read
At the end of July, the Fordham Institute launched an important new series to examine how to create healthy policy for the emergent and disruptive […]
Aug 17, 2011
Teacher of the Future
Why digital learning will liberate teachers
I spend a lot of time writing about how digital learning can transform our education system into a student-centric one. In my last blog, I […]
Aug 9, 2011
Teacher of the Future
The Department of Education: Serious about transformation
Memo to those who work in schools and in the trenches of education: the U.S. Department of Education is serious about wanting to transform the […]
Mar 24, 2011
Clearing the path for learning
Our education system is built to measure and reward the wrong end of the student. Rather than measure learning and move individual students along to […]
Jan 20, 2011
Notable online learning developments in 2010 not all positive ones
As those who have followed the growth of online learning in the United States know, one of the best reports about the online learning field […]
Jan 6, 2011
What can be done in a year?
In two weeks… …a gifted 9th grader in Utah whizzed through an online algebra course and moved on. His program made his progress contingent on […]
Dec 29, 2010
More interaction in online courses isn’t always better
A fascinating study caught my eye a few months back. Titled “Interaction in Online Courses: More is NOT Always Better,” authors Christian J. Grandzol and […]
Dec 16, 2010
When differentiating instruction makes little sense
In an Education Week commentary titled “When Pedagogic Fads Trump Priorities” published online September 27, 2010, Mike Schmoker makes a compelling argument against the practice […]
Nov 4, 2010