Jobs For the Future Q and A with Zoran Popović

Jobs For the Future Q and A with Zoran Popović

Q & A with Zoran Popović In anticipation of our national summit, Horizons, which will bring together practitioners and policymakers in workforce and education, JFF had a chat with one of the attending keynote speakers, Zoran Popović. Popović is a professor of...
Personalized Learning to Dominate Chan Zuckerberg Ed Investments

Personalized Learning to Dominate Chan Zuckerberg Ed Investments

Personalized Learning to Dominate Chan Zuckerberg Ed Investments By Dian Schaffhause December 18, 2017 In a country where the “most privileged” students tend to receive the benefits of getting the “most tailored education,” what would happen if...
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...
Chan-Zuckerberg to Push Ambitious New Vision for Personalized Learning

On the Brink of Massive Change

Tom Vander Ark, May 10, 2017, Education Week. In his article, On the Brink of Massive Change: Is This The Future You Want?, Tom Vander Ark raises questions about how our world is going to change over the next two decades with the technological revolution and mentions...