Colorado’s crummy policies lead to crummy virtual schools
An investigation of Colorado’s full-time virtual schools has revealed some dubious results and practices, which led the state’s Senate President to call for an emergency […]
An investigation of Colorado’s full-time virtual schools has revealed some dubious results and practices, which led the state’s Senate President to call for an emergency […]
Oct 24, 2011
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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