May 29, 2012
In many ways, we’re in the pioneering stages of information-based instructional systems. As we scan the big data horizon, we might sometimes feel like the early aviators who first bravely took to the skies.
Monthly Blog Archives: May 2012
May 27, 2012
How can families break out of extreme poverty? An innovative West Bengal pilot program provides valuable insights.
May 24, 2012
Delaware's Education Insight dashboard was developed in one year. Today, the dashboard is in use by 10 schools in four districts. Statewide deployment is scheduled for the start of the school year this fall.
May 24, 2012
The US Department of Education should take note: No amount of high quality assessments or elegant data systems will make a difference if teachers aren’t intimately familiar with the art of assessing student learning and responding to that information.
May 23, 2012
Those of us in the education reform movement obsess about outcomes. But we’re missing something even more critical: Culture as an input. You can’t improve instruction and performance (period) if you don’t have control of the classroom culture.
May 17, 2012
Student debt correlates to college completion. When we saw 20 Dell Scholars facing a collective $2 million bill at graduation, we went into action.
May 15, 2012
For the majority of South African children, receiving a quality education is a rare opportunity based on luck. The nascent South African Extraordinary Schools Coalition is committed to tackling the systemic problems that plague education in South Africa.
May 14, 2012
You may have heard that if you’re doing public health well, no one really knows you’re doing it. Not true. The key to public health is community participation.The Weight of the Nation brings that lesson to life, and gives you the tools to take action against for obesity your kids, your family and the nation.
May 10, 2012
What we should really be talking about is assessment as learning – a process where students are aware of their own learning objectives and where teachers assist students in their individualized learning paths.
May 09, 2012
Without adequate training in assessment, teachers face challenges meeting the demand to differentiate instruction for each student at his or her level.