Today, the higher education marketplace is thick with companies and organizations claiming to have “personalized learning” or “adaptive learning” capabilities.  Companies are using this language in their sales and marketing efforts, creating confusion for institutions as they grapple with determining an approach to personalized learning that matches their students’ and instructors’ needs.  But if one cuts through the clutter, adaptive learning may be one key capable of actually unshackling…

Helping Education Leaders Grow

It's time to dispel the perception that school principals have all the skills and capacity they need to be successful leaders as soon as they leave principal-preparation…

#SXSWedu: Bill Gates calls for more connected educators

By Melissa Greenwood on March 11th, 2013 …

Rigorous Young Adult Literature or "Dumbed Down" Classics?

A Defense of Standardized Testing

In this Education Gadfly article, Kathleen Porter-Magee and Jennifer Borgioli list four “fundamental misunderstandings” in the arguments made by opponents of high-stakes testing:

• Myth #1: Teachers’ instincts should guide instruction. Critics of test-driven accountability say we should just let teachers teach – that standardized testing wastes instructional time, distracts teachers…

Busted, Chastened, and Enlightened

In this Kappa Delta Pi Record article, retired Missouri educator Julia Frank Hundman recalls how her seventh-grade English teacher, Mrs. B., once asked students to write a poem of their own. “It seemed to me that love, angst, and all sorts of turmoil were requirements for good poetry,” says Hundman. “I was a happy-go-lucky, superficial kid and just not sure what to do with those emotions.” She ended up copying…

Defining Bullying Down

By EMILY BAZELON

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THE March 3 death of …

Opinion: Why America demonizes its teachers

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How to Shop for College

Colleges often make themselves appear less expensive — and more attractive to cash-poor families — through promotional materials and financial aid letters that hide the true…

The Death of the Technology Committee,

the Birth of Something Much Better

Have you ever asked yourself, “What’s the purpose of a school-wide or district-wide technology committee?”

Over the last couple of months, I’ve been doing that.  And, the more I ponder this question, the more I wonder, “Why would I want a technology committee? And, “Are technology committees just outdated…

Response to NC State Super's Justifying Massive Increase in High Stakes Tests