Blog posts from 2010

Last week at age 18 Danielle McBurnett become the youngest nurse practitioner in the country. She started taking college classes at age 12, before finishing high school. In Minnesota, the first state to institute post-secondary enrollment options (PSEO), over 120,000 high school students have chosen to enter college early since 1984.

Waiting for Superman has really drawn attention to the hunger that families have for good schools. Bill Gates (and others) talk in the documentary about the DC education system as something that does things, rather than a collection of people doing things. But if the goal is to have more good schools like those that parents in the movie want to go to, how will this be done?

A new study finds that very few low-performing schools end up being shut down. There may be a different, more effective approach to closing chronically under performing schools: providing alternatives.

Felsted School, an independent day and boarding school in Essex, England, embarks of a two-year trial to integrate Apple technologies into the learning process. Concerned that technology is “often thought of as a panacea to what is essentially a teaching and learning problem,” in this guest post the assistant headmaster describes their process to begin thinking about ways technology could aid effective practice.