When asked about what makes schools in our network different from traditional high schools, our common refrain is "don't ask us, ask the students." They are the best spokespeople for why change in education is necessary.
George Lucas | Posted 05.08.2012
Education is the foundation of our democracy. By seizing on what's working, and recreating those successes from one classroom to the next, we can make it better for everyone.
C. M. Rubin | Posted 04.27.2012
"Through the process of disruptive innovation along came minicomputers, then personal computers, and now tablets and smartphones. That's the force of disruptive innovation, and it is closing the achievement gap on an international level."
C. M. Rubin | Posted 04.06.2012
"Our teachers in Finland are quite autonomous already. They are allowed to choose their methods and they are allowed to be creative."
Lydia Dobyns | Posted 04.29.2012
As an example of project based learning at its best, schools in the New Tech Network recently invited teachers to create projects using the hugely popular The Hunger Games trilogy as learning material.
Anthony Otero | Posted 04.28.2012
The general state of the students has changed. Technology has enabled my students to plan their future in a way I could never imagine.
Joel I. Klein | Posted 04.04.2012
The Obama Administration's push for digital textbooks, while useful, represents only initial steps on the proverbial thousand mile journey.
Lydia Dobyns | Posted 04.01.2012
Discussions are taking place everywhere challenging the effectiveness of digital learning. Let's stop asking the same archaic questions. Technology in the classroom is not the question.
The Huffington Post | Jason Gilbert | Posted 01.20.2012
When Apple introduced iBooks 2 and iTunes U at a media event on Thursday, the mega-corporation put forth its idea of what a future classroom should lo...
Posted 01.31.2012
The Waldorf School of the Peninsula sits in the midst of Silicon Valley, home to the nation's leading tech companies and startups. It educates the chi...
Lydia Dobyns | Posted 12.21.2011
It's time to "blow-up" our antiquated college admissions process. The archaic ritual of getting into college by SAT/ACT scores and GPAs has outlived its usefulness.
Margaret Spellings | Posted 12.10.2011
I think it's helpful to quickly review the principles that have revolutionized nearly every other area of our lives: competition, customization, technology, modern management and a relentless focus on the customer.
www.nytimes.com | TRIP GABRIEL and MATT RICHTEL | Posted 12.10.2011
The Web site of Carnegie Learning, a company started by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University that sells classroom software, trumpets this promise:...
The Huffington Post | Emmeline Zhao | Posted 12.06.2011
In a time of educational debate and shuffling nationwide, a college dropout, businessman and paragon of technological innovation emerged as an inadver...
Posted 05.25.2011
A jokester or high school student wanting to get a snow day started a fake Twitter account that purported to be the official Rogers Schools account an...
Jim McGuire | Posted 05.25.2011
If schools would explore their options, technology for students can be attained without breaking the bank. This is how my sixth-grade language arts classroom is equipped.
Joel Klein | Posted 05.25.2011
The iSchool, a new high school in SoHo that incorporates technology into everyday learning, encourages students to take an active role in their own education and go beyond what they find in a textbook.
Esther Wojcicki | Posted 05.25.2011
Anyone in San Antonio, Texas last week would have thought that American education had entered a new digital age.
Lydia Dobyns | Posted 05.10.2012