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EdWorks asked to transform Baltimore’s historic Frederick Douglass High School by Mary Reese

Congratulations EdWorks on helping to bring this historically important school into 21st century learning!
Editorial Credits Strive With Trying to Bring Labor and Management Together by Ed Jones

It’s amazing that public education is still trying to adopt the lessons that other knowledge workers learned and adopted in the early 80’s, and that most factories adopted in the 90’s.

For...
The New Tech Network 2010 Conference by Ed Jones

Jeanne, it would be great to see some features, concepts, approaches from the Platform.

For example, is it specific to projects? Does it track to state standards? I really don’t even know...
Getting affordable computers into hands of U.S. learners by Ed Jones

Jeanne, “The intellectual curiosity required for students, and adults, to want to learn about GDP, biology and chemistry is another matter entirely “. Yes! That’s exactly what I was...
Getting affordable computers into hands of U.S. learners by Jeanne Bernish

I think the thing to get excited about is the potential for proliferation of cheap – albeit dumb – devices for accessing information. In the US access to the internet is limited by lack...

Ohio Smart Schools Initiative launches crowd-sourcing site

Thu. 08/26/10 | Byron McCauley
A statewide effort looking at ways Ohio’s public schools can boost performance and cut costs is offering the public a chance to weigh in.

Ohio Smart Schools, a nonpartisan initiative of KnowledgeWorks subsidiary Ohio Education Matters, today launched a website that invites Ohioans to
Martinez Discusses Evolution of Learning in New Zealand

Mon. 08/23/10 | Byron McCauley
Dr. Monica Martinez, President of New Tech Network, was in New Zealand last week to participate in a symposium that looked at ways education is expected to change over the next decade. She shared elements of KnowledgeWorks’ 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning, to show how education is evolving into a world where learning is tailored to the needs of the individual student and
Place-based Education

Fri. 08/20/10 | Jesse Moyer
Earlier this month at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, CA, Bill Gates said that students going to college campuses to get an education will be a thing of the past, “Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world, it will be better [...]