When we think of education technology and the reform movement as a whole, certain ideas always seem to rise to the top of the conversation: content disaggregation, tablets in the classroom, teacher training and professional development, mobile learning, data collection and analysis. While there are myriad ventures, startups, nonprofits, foundations, and political groups collectively working to spread this movement, perhaps no single entity is taking on ed-tech reform as holistically as Amplify, the new education division of News Corp. By delivering the hardware, software, data tools, and teacher training necessary for a true new age classroom all bundled together, Amplify seeks to bring our K-12 classrooms into a new era of learning, one with high standards, numerous options, and data-driven decisions.
The person tasked with guiding this audacious venture into rethinking the learning experience from all angles is Joel Klein, a man whose accomplishments are as impressive as they are diverse. Fromlead prosecutor in the antitrust case United States v. Microsoft, to serving in the White House Counsel's office under President Clinton (his wife actually represented Bill during his impeachment trial), to running the largest and most influential school district in the country asNew York City's DOE Chancellor, it's safe to say that Joel has left his mark on the world. Yet if you ask him, the best is yet to come.
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