In this GOOD Future Learning video, Catherine Lucey, Vice Dean of Education at the University of Calfornia, San Francisco, School of Medicine, shows how integrating technology aids the faculty in training the next generation of compassionate,…
Digital Teaching Platforms: Customizing Classroom Learning for Each Student
May 16, 2012The Digital Teaching Platform (DTP) brings the power of interactive technology to teaching and learning in classrooms. In this authoritative book edited by Chris Dede and John Richards, top researchers in the field of learning science......
A New Dawn for STEM Education
May 15, 2012Writing for the Huffington Post, U.S. Representative Barbara Lee (Oakland, California) thoughtfully discusses the need for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education to prepare today’s students for highly skilled career positions. Lee notes that private-public......
Noam Chomsky: The Purpose of Education
May 15, 2012In this Learning Without Frontiers video, noted linguist, philosopher, and historian Noam Chomsky discusses the purpose of education, the impact of technology, whether education should be perceived as a cost or as an investment, and the value......
How to Make STEM Socially and Culturally Relevant
May 14, 2012This post from the University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development discusses how a successful program known as Reach for the Sky brought culturally relevant STEM education to American Indian students. As the authors note,......
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May 15, 2012
In this Learning Without Frontiers video, noted linguist, philosopher, and historian Noam Chomsky discusses the purpose of education, the impact of technology, whether education should be perceived as a cost or as an investment, and the value…
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May 14, 2012This video provides an overview of the Assessment & Teaching of 21st-Century Skills (ATC21S) collaborative problem solving (CPS) tasks, showing them in use at a participating school in Australia. It previews the ways in which ATC21S…
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May 11, 2012In this RAND Corporation video, Laura Hamilton discusses what has been learned in the 10 years since No Child Left Behind (the U.S. Elementary and Secondary Education Act) was signed into law in 2002, including recommendations…
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May 16, 2012In this report, the Center for Public Education describes various ways digital learning is offered to students, from individual online courses to full-time virtual schools. In addition, the report examines current state and district policies that…
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May 11, 2012A representative sample of 122,000 eighth-graders participated in the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) science assessment, which is designed to measure students’ knowledge and abilities in the areas of physical science, life science, and…
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May 9, 2012Criteria and methods for evaluating teachers vary substantially across U.S. school districts and at key career milestones—when teachers complete pre-service teacher education, become initially licensed, are considered for tenure, and receive a professional license. This Stanford Center for Opportunity…
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May 7, 2012The report prepared for the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) seeks to analyze the current state and future development of knowledge exchange in the English higher-education sector. It comes at a time when the role…
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May 16, 2012
The Digital Teaching Platform (DTP) brings the power of interactive technology to teaching and learning in classrooms. In this authoritative book edited by Chris Dede and John Richards, top researchers in the field of learning science…
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May 14, 2012Although standards, as broad frameworks for setting learning targets, are not necessarily problematic, when they are operationalized as high-stakes assessments, test-based pedagogies emerge and frequently dominate the curriculum, leaving little room for critical pedagogies. In addition,…
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May 11, 2012Using a political economy framework to analyze the current problems facing U.S. postsecondary education, The New Limits of Education Policy tackles the questions surrounding the future of higher education. Author Roger Benjamin explains why improvement of teaching and…
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May 8, 2012Most of the scholarship on learner-centeredness is focused on individual classroom pedagogy, but this book takes learner-centeredness beyond the classroom and asks academic leaders to consider the broader implications of making their institutions fully learner-centered. Systemic…
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Mar 21, 2012Worldreader profiles the e-reader program at Kenya’s Menara Primary School, where the technology is giving students and teachers instant access to information to make classrooms and learning more efficient, effective, and fun. The programs more than…
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Mar 6, 2012Converge profiles Arlington County, Virginia (U.S.), which has taken its first major steps on a fiber-optic network that will support education, emergency management, and other government use. Specific to education, through the new ConnectArlington network, the county’s…
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Oct 11, 2011In a quest to keep up with student demand, Kingsborough Community College constantly added computers to labs–but the Brooklyn, New York, college could never keep up. Increasingly, faculty members want students to do research, build e-portfolios,…
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Sep 30, 2011Since their district could not afford new textbooks aligned with state standards, math and science teachers at a Minnesota (U.S.) high school donated their time to create virtual textbooks using free online resources. The plan not…
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Apr 25, 2012Can we be smarter about taking high-quality online and blended schools to scale—and to educational success? Yes, says this Fordham Institute publiciation, which addresses controversial policy issues such as quality control, staffing, funding, and governance for…
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Apr 24, 2012This Brookings paper discusses how the emergence of new collaborative platforms–blogs, wikis, other social media, and video games–has altered the way individuals and organizations relate to one another, especially in the classroom. In conclusion, author Darrell…
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Feb 7, 2012Public Agenda–a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization based in New York–presents this communications and engagement guide for school leaders tackling the problem of persistently failing schools. The goal of the document is to help leaders understand and anticipate negative community…
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Jan 20, 2012From 2014, impact will play a role in the allocation of research funding to U.K. universities through the Research Excellence Framework (REF). This presents universities with a new challenge: how best to capture research results and…
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May 15, 2012
Writing for the Huffington Post, U.S. Representative Barbara Lee (Oakland, California) thoughtfully discusses the need for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education to prepare today’s students for highly skilled career positions. Lee notes that private-public…
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May 14, 2012KQED MindShift profiles the use of mobile devices in the classroom, presenting examples such as an advance-placement chemistry class at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco, California, where cell phones are a natural extension of the…
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May 14, 2012In considering the flipped-classroom approach, Edudemic argues that we must take a good look at what the classroom looks like now, what activities students gain the most from, what we wished we had more time for, and…
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May 14, 2012
This post from the University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development discusses how a successful program known as Reach for the Sky brought culturally relevant STEM education to American Indian students. As the authors note,…