We are two weeks into ExcelinEd’s My School Information Design Challenge, with the goal of making state report cards on schools more useful to parents, teachers, policymakers, and the broader community. Rebecca Shah, on Data Quality Campaign’s Blog, highlighted the need for not just making data available, but putting it in a usable format: We use information…
Archives for September 2014
Upgrading High Schools with MOOCs
By: Nathan Martin edX believes that students who want to learn deserve access to the best classes in the world. Since launching in 2012, the non-profit collaboration governed by MIT and Harvard has expanded opportunities for driven and motivated students to take Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from some of the best universities in the…
23 Sep 2014
It’s Time to Reimagine School Information
By John Bailey and Tom Vander Ark This article originally appeared on the Huffington Post. “Let me Google that.” “Google” has become a universal term for finding information online, and was officially recognized as a verb by the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006. Quick, simple access to useful information online has transformed the way we…
22 Sep 2014
Time to Act Now to Improve Today’s Education for Tomorrow’s Economy
Dear Friends, Last month, I wrote an urgent call to action based on ACT’s Conditions of College & Career Readiness report. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Leaders & Laggards, A State-by-State Report Card on K-12 Educational Effectiveness, released today, reinforces the importance of acting now to improve the quality of education for tomorrow’s economy. I applaud…
12 Sep 2014