Educators from coast-to-coast will celebrate the nation's first Digital Learning Day on Wednesday. Amidst the cool technology demonstrations, shiny gadgets, and debates about online learning, it's essential not to overlook the country's most expensive -- and perhaps most ambitious -- initiative to use digital technology.
Just under 18 months...
Posted July 8, 2011 | 07/08/11 02:59 PM ET
Poor Bruce Randolph School. First, President Obama praises the school in his 2011 State of the Union address. Then Diane Ravitch, in a New York Times op-ed, cited the school as an example of "statistical legerdemain." And now, Paul Tough, in a New York Times magazine...
Posted April 29, 2011 | 04/29/11 02:33 PM ET
At 27, after six years working on youth service-learning, literacy, and a variety of issues to strengthen community-based nonprofit organizations, I entered business school. In one way, it was an odd choice. I knew little about high finance and, growing up in the Gordon Gekko /
Posted March 31, 2011 | 03/31/11 04:23 PM ET
We're learning that there are many ways to cheat.
The legitimacy of test score increases in District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), in particular those at Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus, are the focus of the latest installment in USA Today's "Testing the System," a multi-part...
Posted March 22, 2011 | 03/22/11 01:27 PM ET
This week, USA Today continues "Testing the System," a multi-part series exploring the extent and causes of cheating -- by teachers, principals and schools -- on standardized tests. While cheating happens in every field and system, today's polarized debates around education reform can easily turn this type of...
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