Our goal as a nation should be to ensure that 80 percent of our students graduate from high school fully ready to attend college by 2025. This is the goal this fascinating article and worth reading discuss on why Bill Gates Foundation should "never trust what anyone who in education tells" them. From D-Ed Reckoning on what works in education research: "Type 1 approach. The most obvious way would be to ask and check. Because successful applications have been created by design, ask the designer of the successful program what the variables are that the design controls and why. The answers imply tidy, controlled experiments that involve systematic investigation of the designer’s assertions." If you want to receive my future posts regularly for FREE, please subscribe in a reader or by e-mail. If you have concerns, Contact Me at anytime.

I am fascinated by Mitra’s Hole in the Wall project and it’s implications for student centered group learning. He concludes that the greatest impact of educational technology can be seen in the poorest most educationally neglected areas.  That may be true but he has never placed a hole in the wall in a developed country.  [...]