inBloom’s collapse offers lessons for innovation in education
By now the story is well known. inBloom, a non-profit that offered a data warehouse solution designed to help public schools embrace the promise of […]
By now the story is well known. inBloom, a non-profit that offered a data warehouse solution designed to help public schools embrace the promise of […]
Dec 4, 2014
Last week the New America Foundation’s Chelsea Wilhelm wrote about a startling trend in state education technology planning: by and large, it’s not happening. As […]
Oct 21, 2014
Are new software platforms revving the engine of competency-based blended learning? This week, Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) released a comprehensive summary of Spark, a […]
Oct 15, 2014
Exciting news hit the presses early last week—the XPrize is funding its first edtech competition. The goal: to handsomely reward the team that develops the […]
Sept 30, 2014
“That’s why Barbara Dreyer is a champ.” The lyrics rang out across the hall at the Center for Education Reform’s 20th Anniversary celebration as the crowd honored Barbara […]
Sept 4, 2014
For those adults working on, writing about, or generally pondering the fate of our education system, “teachers” are thought of as a stakeholder group, a […]
Aug 19, 2014
More often than not, when I ask school systems and principals about their approach to instructional technology, I hear one of two things. A victorious […]
July 22, 2014
While in Korea studying the country’s education system on my Eisenhower Fellowship, I observed how little Korean society values educational software. The idea of paying […]
July 17, 2014
Why are schools going blended? The answer is certainly mixed depending on whom you talk to. In some senses it doesn’t matter—whether it’s to increase […]
July 2, 2014
Just as companies often struggle to create compelling solutions for small- to medium-sized businesses, so, too, do education technology companies often overlook the priorities and […]
June 19, 2014