Gates Foundation launches comment period for NextGen challenges
Many have by now seen that the Gates Foundation is launching what it is calling “NextGen Learning Challenges,” with the aim of improving college readiness […]
Many have by now seen that the Gates Foundation is launching what it is calling “NextGen Learning Challenges,” with the aim of improving college readiness […]
July 1, 2010
School is out for summer, and one glance at the bronzed bodies of the little people in my neighborhood in Hawaii leaves no doubt that […]
June 30, 2010
I’ve had the good fortune of hearing Reed Hastings speak twice in the months since his recent purchase of Dreambox Learning about his vision for […]
June 24, 2010
A study commissioned by Psychological Science in the Public Interest called “Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence,” by Harold Pashler, Mark McDaniel, Doug Rohrer, and Robert […]
June 17, 2010
President Obama’s FY2011 budget proposal zeroes out funding for the Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program, thereby eliminating the primary line item for federal Ed […]
June 16, 2010
Innosight Institute is collaborating with the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) Office of Global Social Innovation in the launch of a new global education grant program called […]
June 9, 2010
In a conversation with one of the principals featured in a forthcoming Apex Learning case study, the principal noted that males under the age of […]
June 9, 2010
Innosight Institute’s chairman, Gisele Huff, has an op-ed in The Hill’s Congress Blog. In the piece, titled “The new classroom: online education and charter schools,” […]
June 7, 2010
In a recent blog, Michael B. Horn identified how Rethink Autism’s business model bears many of the traits of a disruptive innovation. The new company […]
May 26, 2010
How I love this Freakonomics Radio podcast (click on Episode 1). It compares public schools to a bad radio station, which broadcasts one stream of […]
May 20, 2010