Education News

"The volume of opportunity in education technology is far greater than it was five years ago," said Frank Bonsal III, a Baltimore venture capitalist. He is trying to raise money to start a fund to invest in education companies.

Mentoring programs produce tangible outcomes for students “including decreases in drug and alcohol use, enhanced peer and parent-child relationships, better school attendance and improved attitudes about performance and school.”

It’s imperative we don’t lose sight of the huge transformations occurring in the foundations of our civil, societal, and commercial foundations that are the result of information technology. Informed women were not at the table as these systems were evolving; they need to be, now.”

-Lucy Sanders, NCWIT CEO and Co-founder

The product, Yahoo for Teachers, is a sort of social network that allows teachers to collaborate on course work and store information that they find online and want to showcase in class.

Fueled by mounting evidence that quality early education helps close the achievement gap, most states are increasing their investments in preschool programs for 3- and 4-year-olds.

The goal, he said in an interview last week, is to better prepare children for school and get more of them into college to make the United States more globally competitive, particularly with countries like China and India.

The NGA Center’s Honor States Grant Program is a $23.6 million, governor-led initiative to improve high school and college-ready graduation rates in 26 states.

In almost every other state that has been effective in improving its education system, the business community has been engaged to push for reforms.

The 2002 No Child Left Behind law has placed a greater emphasis on using objective data in schools.

The Department of Education reported that Idaho had a graduation rate of 81 percent in 2005, 6 1/2 percentage points behind the top state, Nebraska.