Month: December 2020

5 Big Ideas for Education Innovation in 2018 – by Julia Freeland Fisher

Last year saw a flurry of activity in support of personalized learning, new school designs, and new approaches to K-12 education policy. Looking ahead, education innovators have their work cut out for them in 2018. Some of this work requires asking hard questions. Some requires acknowledging that there’s an elephant in the room. And some requires looking beyond our current con...

What We’re Watching: Bush-Obama School Reform — Lessons Learned – by Education Next

On Tuesday, January 16, 2018, starting at 9 am, AEI will be hosting a conference on the past two decades of school reform. Panels will discuss what we have learned about accountability, policy instruments, and Washington’s role. The conference will conclude with a panel on the lessons that can be learned about K-12 reform from the George W. Bush and Barack Obama years an...

In the News: iPhones and Children Are a Toxic Pair, Say Two Big Apple Investors – by Education Next

In the Wall Street Journal, David Benoit reports that two large investors are asking Apple to do more to address the overuse of cell phones by kids. A leading activist investor and a pension fund sent a letter to Apple “urging it to develop new software tools that would help parents control and limit phone use more easily and to study the impact of overuse on mental healt...