by Emily Auerbach | Nov 6, 2012 | Magazine Article
Every year I have the good fortune to both witness and participate in a powerful transformation. As I walk into a meeting room in the Goodman South Madison Library the first Wednesday night in September, thirty anxious faces look at mine. Some have been told they are...
by Constance Steinkuehler | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
For those with a vested interest in online technologies for learning, the knowledge and skills that constitute successful participation in massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) places them squarely among the most promising new digital technologies to date....
by Diane Ravitch | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
In her Academy Evening talk Diane Ravitch, the “best living historian of education” (Washington Post) and America’s “soberest, most history-minded education expert” (Wall Street Journal), gives us one of the best informed analyses of the...
by Gary Rhoades | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
Gary Rhoades, Professor of Higher Education at the University of Arizona, shares a seasoned, national perspective on the rapidly changing landscape of higher education. Rhoades focuses on state policy models that are emerging nationally and the extent to which these...
by Adam Gamoran | Mar 29, 2011 | Videos
Under No Child Left Behind, efforts to reduce educational inequality have focused on raising standards and holding educators accountable for whether students meet their targets. This aim has now been reinforced by new federal programs that give states incentives to...
