Why Choice Alone is Not Enough
NACSA’s Greg Richmond has a terrific Education Week op-ed about what the charter school movement must do to build quality at scale. You should read it. Conveniently for me, it’s also directly...
View ArticleCommunity Involvement – Moving from Box Checking to Shared Accountability
This week the National Journal is taking on the critical issue of parent and community involvement in turning around low performing schools. The conversation is spurred by Sec. Duncan’s commitment last...
View ArticleUsing Data Across Children’s Lives
–More from our new report, Putting Data Into Practice… Students in New York City schools interact with a number of public agencies and participate in a variety of out-of-school activities. All are...
View ArticleThe Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup of Education
I’ve always thought that community-based youth development organizations — with deep community roots, strong adult role models and relationships, and safe physical spaces — could be the peanut butter...
View ArticleIt’s a Blended Learning World
As I wrote a few years ago, the future for education is neither a fully virtual nor a parallel system, but an integrated one. The overwhelming majority of students will continue to attend physical...
View ArticleDigital Learning Call to Action for Community Organizations
Lucy Friedman, founding president of The After-School Corporation (TASC), in the Huffington Post, expands on the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup opportunity — and imperative — for community organizations and...
View ArticleBottom Line Goal for Blended Learning: Better Student Outcomes
Lots of buzz around blended learning — the idea that we shouldn’t limit ourselves to a forced choice between teachers and technology, but can strive to find the right combination of high tech and high...
View ArticleA Dash of Cold Water
Stanford Emeritus Professor, education historian, and noted education technology realist/skeptic Larry Cuban sets out to throw a “dash of cold water on overheated hyperbole” around online and blended...
View ArticleA Nuanced Look at Blended Learning
Earlier this year, Larry Cuban and I had a brief back-and-forth about the prospects for online learning — particularly with regards to helping/harming students most at-risk. Fortunately, Education Next...
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