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Leadership

Funding Students, Options & Achievement

Money matters. The way districts and states fund schools influences leadership behaviors. We need to create funding systems that encourage innovation, power options, and promote achievement.

one month ago by Tom Vander Ark

Leadership

Infographic: Financing the Future of Education

Today’s current system was simply not designed to allow for the flexibility that will be needed as students seek out increasingly online and blended learning opportunities. The infographic, Financing the Future of Education recommends four design principles that will get us there. The infographic is a complement to F...

one month ago by Caroline Vander Ark Davis

Leadership

Investing in Education Innovation

Last Wednesday, we led a #SXSWedu conversation about funding and fund raising in education. The first of two blogs outlines the conversation we led on investing in innovation.

2 months ago by Tom Vander Ark

Learning

Time’s Person of the Year: (It Should Be) The Crowd

Crowdsourcing has had its greatest impact on funding, knowledge collection and curation, and creation and production. All of these are key issues for today’s educators, both at the leadership level and in the classroom. Gen Z students were born in the middle of this crowdsourcing phenomenon, except they don’t recog...

4 months ago by Adam Renfro

Learning

The New Equity Agenda

Nearing a quarter of the school populations, Hispanic students are generally not well served by U.S. K-12 education. Here’s five state policies that would help.

2 years ago by Tom Vander Ark

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Foundation for Excellence in Education

The Foundation for Excellence in Education is igniting a movement of reform, state by state, to transform education for the 21st century economy. Excellence in Action, the organization’s flagship initiative, is working with lawmakers and policymakers to advance education reform across America. Learn more at www.Exce...

EdTech

Drafting Online Laws at the OK Corral

Legislators in Oklahoma are cobbling together language for a new bill on virtual schooling. They seem to be leaving out statewide virtual charter opportunities, and it looks like the bulk of the bill is meant to keep control, funding, and power in the hands of districts, keeping parents from seeking out great virtual e...

2 years ago by Getting Smart Staff

EdTech

Paul Pastorek: It Takes a Mighty Effort to Reform

Rick Hess interviews Paul Pastorek, Lousiana's state schools chief after Lousiana comes up short in the second round of RttT.

2 years ago by Getting Smart Staff