By: Adam Peshek Empowering students starts with understanding students. Data is a powerful tool for teachers, parents and students as they work to align instruction around the customized needs of each learner. To truly center learning around students, ExcelinEd has said and advocated consistently that this use of data must be done in a secure…
FCC’s Draft E-Rate Proposal Includes Important, Timely, and Common Sense Reforms
On Friday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler circulated to his fellow Commissioners a draft E-Rate reform proposal that would—in the words of the accompanying fact sheet—“revitalize the E-Rate program for the world of personalized learning.” Chairman Wheeler’s draft proposal represents an important first step toward reforming and modernizing the E-Rate program—a first step that is largely…
23 Jun 2014
DLN Joins Consensus Letter Calling for E-rate Modernization, Simplification, and Fiscal Discipline
Yesterday, Digital Learning Now joined over 100 school districts, digital learning advocates, businesses, civil rights organizations, and education reform organizations to endorse the upgrading, reforming, and refocusing of the E-rate program. The letter asks the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to make the following common sense reforms designed to increase efficiencies and maximize existing funding: Establish…
13 Jun 2014
Every Course for Every Student
This post was originally posted on The EdFly Blog. By Nathan Martin Schools should be conduits of opportunity. When a student walks into the 21st-century classroom, they should feel like they’ve stepped into a restaurant tailored to their needs and constructed around the goal of preparing them for success in a college or career. They should be greeted…
10 Jun 2014
Mission Dolores Academy Puts a Renewed Focus on Students through Blended Learning
By: Clare Crowson Catholic schools have long played a role in providing inner city parents with a quality education alternative for their children. Unfortunately we are seeing increasing numbers of these schools close down as resources dwindle. That makes the story of the Mission Dolores Academy, which serves a diverse group of K-8 inner-city students…
2 Jun 2014
Equity of Access for All Students: The Promise of Course Choice
Every student deserves access to a high quality education. This education should be robust and rigorous, preparing them to succeed in the future. It should also customized and flexible, shaped around the needs of each individual student. This should be the right of every student, in every school, regardless of where they might happen to…
20 May 2014
Digital Learning Now! Releases White Paper on Myths, Reality & Promise of Online Learning
WASHINGTON – Digital Learning Now! (DLN), a national campaign under the Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), today released the eighth white paper in the DLN Smart Series. “Online Learning: Myths, Reality & Promise” explores the current trends, myths and realities of online learning. From state legislatures to classrooms across the country, a revolution of…
19 May 2014
Stanford University & Digital Learning Now Focus on Online Education
When most people talk about increasing choice in education, they think about parents and children having more choice when it comes to selecting which school to attend. Digital learning, however, is making it easier and easier for students to customize their learning experience by having choices at the course level. Course choice programs can expand…
19 May 2014