Montana's 21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."

"We have to increase our expectations for little kids, which tend to be much too low."

This is an astonishing example of the way MOOCs — massively open online courses — may be able to transform education as we know it, changing it from the privilege of an elite into a shared commons that is open and free to everyone.

Unlike other New York City private schools, with their decades of institutional wisdom, Avenues was founded on the premise that its parents were partners in building a new community. So it was ready to hear them out.

Until now no one had thought to leverage these numbers to inform education and career choices. But by separating the data from individual identities, that same data can reveal much about education and careers.

Dr. Roland Rios turned the tables on education by having the students teach the teachers instructional technology.

What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they’ll start teaching themselves English while circumventing the security on your OS to customize settings and activate disabled hardware. Whoa.

A unique way of teaching right here in Missoula. Some say it makes it nearly impossible for any child to be left behind. But how does it work?

Public universities have a long history of adapting to technological change, but they must speed up their embrace of online education — and work together to do so — to remain at the forefront of educating the citizens of their states and the country.

Winners of annual award from eSchool News honored in a series of webinars

These days, it’s encouraging to see leaders at every political level championing early education.