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The Clayton Christensen Institute has recently released a paper “Is K-12 Blended Learning Disruptive? An introduction of the theory of hybrids”. The Institute has published three papers which have defined and described the growth of blended learning. In this fourth paper, the Institute...
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As we find ourselves at the end of another academic year, posts on the NGLC blog have taken a reflective tone. Grantees reflected on their efforts to transform education, and NGLC staff and guest bloggers reflected on the impact of educational innovation…on teachers and teaching, on learning...
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By Tom Vander Ark & Carri Schneider
Editor’s Note: Earlier this month, Digital Learning Now! released a DLN Smart Series white paper on blended learning and the teaching profession. This post by two of the paper’s authors, Tom Vander Ark and Carri Schneider, originally appeared on...
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By John Glover, Founder and CEO of Alpha Public Schools
“How is your year going?” It is a seemingly innocuous question, but anyone who asks this of a first-year, blended model school operator should be prepared to pull up a chair and get comfortable. Conditions on the ground are...
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Since NGLC’s recent investments (Waves IIIa, IV) have been about starting new Breakthrough Schools, I decided it was time to pick-up The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. Eric defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. Launching...
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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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NGLC’s Andy Calkins and Dalia Hochman headed West last week to attend the New Schools Venture Fund’s annual Summit in San Francisco and to visit a few of our Wave IIIa schools in the Bay Area.
The conference was keynoted by Sal Khan and Tom Friedman. Each spoke of the increasing...
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Editors note: This post originally appeared on the Getting Smart blog at gettingsmart.com on April 30, 2013.
By Tom Vander Ark
Hey, how about some good news from Detroit? As noted recently, education in Detroit is coming out of the tailspin. There are some very good schools...
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Editor’s Note: This is the second post in a new series that provides a monthly recap of topics and issues addressed in the NGLC blog.
April Posts, In a Nutshell:
Open educational resources (OER) and deeper learning were popular topics this past month.
NGLC released two updated...
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There is an old saying in education—“when we don’t know how to measure what is important, we consider important that which we can measure.” This truism, while perhaps a bit simplistic, has governed the first generation of the Standards Movement in K-12 education....
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