By: Erin Lockett Technology has changed how we interact with society. From banking to news consumption, it is easy to see and understand the impact and reach technology has had on our world. In the realm of education, we can see the effects of meaningful implementation of technology through stories from schools like Rocketship Education…
Join Us at the 2014 National Summit on Education Reform
Dear Friends, Today, registration opens for the Foundation for Excellence in Education’s seventh annual National Summit on Education Reform in Washington, D.C., November 20 – 21, 2014. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision. The site of our summit, the Marriott Wardman Park, hosted Thurgood Marshall the evening before he appeared before the U.S….
6 Oct 2014
2014 National Summit on Education Reform – Don’t Miss This Opportunity
Dear Friends, Mark your calendars to join Governor Jeb Bush and ExcelinEd on November 20-21 for our 7th annual National Summit on Education Reform in Washington, D.C.! While I say it every year, I have no doubt this will be our best summit yet. Governor Bush will open the summit with a breakfast keynote on…
1 Oct 2014
DQC: Public Reporting Informs Decisions, Empowers Action
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…
30 Sep 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
Improving Student Engagement With Course Access
By: Neil Campbell As someone who is lucky to have friends all over the Southeast, Midwest, and Northeast – every week from early August through early September involves a new round of pictures on my Facebook feed with captions to the effect of, “I can’t believe (…) is already in (…) grade!” These pictures are…
29 Aug 2014