It can be easy to forget, as Governor Andrew Cuomo promotes his aggressive education reform agenda, that he only recently became the most prominent champion of the cause in New York…
Day: July 7, 2019
An Open Letter to Randi Weingarten
In the interest of seeding progress, not scoring points, I offer the following feedback to American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten in response to her Oct. 22 speech to the West Coast Labor Management Institute…
EDTECH is Hot, Except When it’s Not: Accelerating
At least once a month we come across a breathless article or blog post about the hot growth in EdTech investing. No wonder. From Q2 2014 to Q2 2015, investment was up 96%…
How Will Tech Revolutionize Education?
There is almost no aspect of life that has not been fundamentally changed and re-ordered over the past 100 years through new technology and innovation…
More Students are Living in Poverty
Students in America’s schools are much, much poorer than they were nine years ago. In 2006, 31 percent of America’s students attended schools in “high-poverty” districts…
Fix Education with Software
Neeru Khosla is not your typical billionaire’s wife. She doesn’t spend her time stocking up on the latest designer trends or writing checks to the first charity that comes calling. Instead, for the last eight…
