Gary Stager

Gary Stager

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Gary Stager Ph.D. has spent the past twenty-six years as an internationally recognized educator, speaker, journalist and consultant working on six continents. His work specializes in educational technology, at-risk learners and school reform.

Gary is Senior Editor of District Administration Magazine, Editor of The Pulse: Education’s Place for Debate, Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University and Executive Director of The Constructivist Consortium. He led professional development in the world's first schools where every child had a laptop (1990), has designed online graduate school programs since the mid-90s, is a collaborator in the MIT Media Lab's Future of Learning Group and a member of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation's Learning Team. Stager's doctoral research involved the creation a high-tech alternative learning environment for incarcerated at-risk teens. Recent work includes teaching in and mentoring "troubled" public schools. In 1999, Converge Magazine named Gary a "shaper of our future and inventor of our destiny." In 2007, the National School Boards Association recognized Dr. Stager as one of "20 Leaders to Watch."

Most recently, Gary was the new media producer for The Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri Project - Simpatíco, 2007 Grammy Award Winner for Best Latin Jazz Album of the Year.

Blog Entries by Gary Stager

I Want My Tim TV!

Posted June 18, 2008 | 08:10 PM (EST)

Last Friday I was in Las Vegas for a couple of long needed days of R&R. Fun in the sun was interrupted by a text message from a friend telling me that Tim Russert had died.

I thought to myself, "I wonder if MSNBC will have any news on...

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When the Jumbotron says, "Read," You Read!

Posted May 31, 2008 | 06:01 AM (EST)

Driving past the local "cash-strapped" high school's humongous color jumbotron the other day (the one in violation of zoning laws and with a larger carbon footprint than Toledo), I was reminded that I haven't written about one of my favorite subjects in a while - summer reading. The jumbotron's ominous...

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Spelling Porn

Posted May 31, 2008 | 04:14 AM (EST)

Friday night, ABC aired the Scripps National Spelling Bee in prime time. CBS' broadcast of Live Bingo from Temecula must have scared the network into preempting its landmark miniseries, Miley Cyrus: The Early Years.

The National Spelling Bee is like the Westminster Dog Show, but with children.

Spelling...

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The Surge Against First Graders

Posted May 8, 2008 | 04:57 PM (EST)

When overseas colleagues criticize American foreign policy, I've been known to respond, "If you like Iraq, you'll love what the Bush administration has done to public education." Late last week, the US Department of Education proved my point when they released the Reading First Impact Study: Interim Report. 

Like the...

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