21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."

The system will enable students to track the transmission of their transcripts and forward letters of recommendation. By year’s end, the program should be available to students in public and private high schools.

What educators call project-based learning has become a major movement. And now, one elementary school in Silicon Valley is taking this idea to an even higher level.

When relevance comes in the form of applied and work-based learning, improved engagement comes with the potential for career awareness and workplace skills.

Turning data into higher achievement involves changing the entire school culture–and technology that ties together the entire instructional cycle also can help.

We’ve assembled this collection of resources to help you understand how innovations in special-education services are opening up new possibilities in blended-learning models.

Public schools are failing our kids when it comes to technology.

Learn about the successful actions taken by two school districts that allowed them to ready their networks for next-generation learning. In addition, read 11 invaluable network upgrade tips.

Many former teachers are using technology to improve education, but from outside the classroom.

The data from this online survey of early childhood educators reveals that teachers of young children in general do not feel that current education policy mandates are benefiting children.

The responses I found most intriguing were from CIOs who said that they had already taken steps to provide their faculty with access to big data tools, but now they are itching to expand their own role with these new technologies by utilizing big data analytics to improve IT operations.