Chan-Zuckerberg to Push Ambitious New Vision for Personalized Learning

Chan-Zuckerberg to Push Ambitious New Vision for Personalized Learning

Former deputy secretary of education to head expanded initiative By Benjamin Herold June 29, 2017 Pediatrician Priscilla Chan and Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are gearing up to invest hundreds of millions of dollars a year in a new vision of “whole-child...
Traditional assessment rewards the wrong behaviors-here’s why

Traditional assessment rewards the wrong behaviors-here’s why

Alan November, June 16, 2017, eSchool News. Instead of rewarding students for how many problems they solve, here’s what schools should be focusing on instead. If you told me that students as young as first grade can learn to solve complex linear equations—an algebraic...
Technology Should Be a Bottom-Up Experience in the Classroom

Technology Should Be a Bottom-Up Experience in the Classroom

I like technology, and I strongly believe it has an integral place in education. I’ve believed this for decades, ever since I wrote my doctoral dissertation in the mid- 1970’s on how kids learn using computers. Technology helps children think about how to solve...
Sandi Everlove Joins Enlearn as Chief Learning Officer

Sandi Everlove Joins Enlearn as Chief Learning Officer

Press Release, May 24, 2016. Sandi Everlove Joins Enlearn as Chief Learning Officer Everlove brings years of experience as an award-winning classroom teacher and advocate for underserved students to the Enlearn team. SEATTLE – May 24, 2016 – PRLog —...