LinkedIn created a higher-education marketing business earlier this year and has major ambitions for its growth. Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) is assembling a brain trust of high-profile hires under a relatively new CEO. I wasn’t aware of either of these developments until I wrote about them recently for EdSurge. (Hopefully they were news to EdSurge’s readers, as […]
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The New York City public school system is a fascinating reporting topic. Did you know that one out of every 50 American children is part of the NYC school system? That the NYCDOE has a $24 billion annual budget? When you’re talking about NYC schools, size matters. So, it’s been interesting for me to look […]
More than a decade before Code.org or Girls Who Code kicked off, New York nonprofit MOUSE was teaching tech in underserved city schools. MOUSE is still doing that work, but now its reach is national. MOUSE recently marked its 15th anniversary with a celebration in New York City. I covered the event for EdSurge. It […]
Big Data looks different when the target is your child. I’ve written before about the benefits of marshaling and analyzing swaths of data. InBloom, an Atlanta-based nonprofit, wants to bring big data’s perks to public schools, but it’s encountering resistance from parents who view the data collection and crunching as an invasion of their children’s […]
In New York, the educational technology scene is dominated by start-ups and Meetups. I belong to the NY EdTech Meetup, which is popular and organizes good panels and discussions on a regular basis. At times, though, I’ve thought the community would benefit from another organization stepping in and being active. Over the past few months, […]
My latest story is for EdSurge, a “community resource for all things in edtech”. EdSurge is a Silicon Valley-based start-up that publishes two weekly newsletters about educational technology; one geared towards entrepreneurs, one for teachers. EdSurge also operates a wiki-like site full of information on educational products, organizations, schools, etc. If you’re interested in education, […]
The proliferation of accessible, online resources and night/weekend classes has made it easier than ever to learn how to code. But is coding a skill that small-business CEOs — who usually have their own technical teams or outsource their programming work — need? That’s the question I examine in this story, which appears in the […]
Could reading on mobile screens help people who have dyslexia? An NSF-funded, Harvard-led study is seeking to answer that question via tests that employ iPod touches and a reading method known as SLTR (Span-Limiting Tactile Reinforcement). I wrote about the study here, on Fast Company’s Co.Exist site, which publishes stories about “world-changing innovations.” SLTR calls for text to […]
