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States Report Challenges in Their Race to the Top

Last week, the Department of Education released reports for 12 Race to the Top grantees, detailing their progress (or lack thereof) on transforming education at the local level. The reports highlight the second-year work and accomplishments and challenges of implementing new information systems and the required tougher...

3 months ago by Tom Vander Ark

EdTech

FCC & ED Push Digital Textbooks

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the U.S. Department of Education is hosting a meeting today with the goal of getting digital textbooks in every child’s hands in five years. Karen Cator, the Director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education, helped organize the meeti...

one year ago by Tom Vander Ark

Learning

School Will Change, With or Without Following Rules

Public education is, by its very nature, tangled with policy, dependent on rules and regulations set by federal, state, and district mandates. What most students do in school at any given moment has been prescribed by legislation passed years before they — or their parents — entered kindergarten.

one year ago by Guest Author

Digital Media & Learning Competition Leverages Open Badges

A new game-based strategy called Digital Media and Learning Competition, hosted by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, HASTAC, and Mozilla, plans to leverage badges and badge systems to help people learn and demonstrate skills and knowledge.

one year ago by Getting Smart Staff

EdTech

White House Launches New “Digital Promise” Initiative

The White House and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced today the launch of "Digital Promise," a new national center created by Congress to advance technologies that can transform teaching and learning.

one year ago by Getting Smart Staff

advocacy partner

MIND Research Institute

The nonprofit MIND Research Institute is dedicated to solving math education in America through its cutting-edge approach to teaching and learning math. Its uniquely visually-based ST Math instructional software program is helping children across the country dramatically improve their math proficiency and become life-l...

EdTech

Video: Jim Shelton, Deputy Asst. Sec., DOE

Jim Shelton, Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Education speaks to the attendees at Virtual Schools Symposium in Phoenix, Arizona.

2 years ago by Getting Smart Staff

EdTech

Susan Patrick to Testify in Favor of Virtual Ed

Virtual education does not eliminate a need for teachers or schools. It generates thoughtful interactive education for students who are destined to work in a global economy, says President of iNACOL ahead of her testimony in Utah today.

2 years ago by Getting Smart Staff