College Readiness

Do the Math SAILS into Tennessee High Schools

By John Squires This month, the number of students potentially ready for college in Tennessee got a significant boost as a version of Chattanooga State College’s “Do the Math” project, one of NGLC’s “Building Blocks for College Completion” grantees, expanded its...
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Pathway to Possibility: A Framework is Renovated and Refined

Last September, Next Generation Learning Challenges published a white paper laying out our perspective on what next generation learning is and what it requires. The six dimensions of the framework were built out of observations of the work of NGLC grantees and a scan of the field. Since then, we...
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Breakthrough Academic and Business Models for K-12 Schools: Resources for Wave IV Applicants

Last week, NGLC announced a new wave of funding for planning and launching new “breakthrough” secondary school models. Today, we want to point prospective applicants to a few key resources that offer examples of and theoretical and evidence-based perspectives on breakthrough academic...
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Taking Do the Math to High Schools

By John Squires, Chattanooga State Community College Anyone even slightly concerned with higher education’s current crisis is familiar with the statistics: the percentage of students entering college who eventually emerge with degrees is dismally low. One important contributing factor to...
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Next-Gen Learning Models Blend Tech & Experiences

By Tom Vander Ark Editor’s Note: Excerpts from this guest post originally appeared on GettingSmart.com and EdWeek. Critics argue that blended and competency-based learning is just testing all the time. They chafe at what appears to be more mindless box checking. When I visit credit recovery...
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Nex-Gen Models Attack Problems, Leverage Opportunities

By Tom Vander Ark Editor’s Note: Excerpts from this guest post originally appeared on the blog, "gettingsmart.com." It’s great if you think you have a good sense of how a next-generation school would work, but good luck trying to get funding. Most school districts don...
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Edison, the Science of Sustainability, and the Value of Invalidation

By Heather Gilchrist, Socratic Labs Editor’s Note: This blog is the fourth in a series of posts reflecting on a recent gathering of Wave II grantees. In early December, I had the honor of spending a few days with the Next Generation Learning Challenges Wave II grantees. I joined them at...
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19 Promising (and Common Core-aligned) Tools and Resources for Middle School Classrooms

Editor’s Note: This blog is the third in a series of posts reflecting on a recent gathering of Wave II grantees In the last two posts on this blog, NGLC staff shared key takeaways from an event last week, when we convened 19 grantees, all of whom have been developing and refining learning...
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Wave II Convening: Explore a Virtual “Innovations Showcase”

Editor’s Note: This blog is the second in a series of posts reflecting on a recent gathering of Wave II grantees. Last week, NGLC invited our Wave II innovators and researchers to Atlanta for a “capstone” convening to mark the end of their tenure as NGLC grantees. The...
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Wave II Convening: What We Learned

Editor’s Note: This blog is the first in a series of posts reflecting on a recent gathering of Wave II grantees. More than a year ago, NGLC invited 19 grantee teams of innovators, researchers, and curriculum developers to meet one another in Seattle. The ink was barely dry on...
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