No shock as Peru’s one-to-one laptops miss mark
Five years ago Peru’s government equipped 800,000 of its public school students with low-cost laptops through the One Laptop Per Child initiative. The purpose was […]
Five years ago Peru’s government equipped 800,000 of its public school students with low-cost laptops through the One Laptop Per Child initiative. The purpose was […]
Aug 22, 2012
Ask yourself, would the next Rocketship Education or Goalbook grow in your backyard? If not, what would it take? One thing is for sure: education innovation does not happen […]
Aug 9, 2012
A couple of pieces in the New York Times and Washington Post have attracted some attention over the past couple of weeks for their descriptions […]
July 26, 2012
I had the opportunity recently to revisit Doug Lemov’s book, Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College, which […]
July 18, 2012
In Jay Mathews’s recent column, “Nothing Can Replace a Good Teacher,” he describes a sad scenario in which a seventh-grader in Michigan was enrolled in […]
July 17, 2012
Yesterday I, along with my colleague, Innosight Institute Education research assistant Charity Eyre, authored an op-ed titled “State has virtually no reason to not give […]
July 12, 2012
As I talk to people who want to blend online learning into students’ curriculum, the most frequent question I get is what online content is […]
July 2, 2012
When Clayton Christensen published The Innovator’s Dilemma in 1997, educators from around the country began asking him to apply the theories of disruptive innovation to […]
June 27, 2012
This week I switched from Time Warner to AT&T for residential Internet and cable. For the same cost, AT&T offered more channels and promised the […]
June 22, 2012
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation put two stakes in the ground yesterday in support of next-generation digital learning: one in the postsecondary school space […]
June 20, 2012