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Dec 10, 2015The Next National Education Technology Plan“The future is here; it’s just not evenly distributed.” A variation of the prophetic quote attributed to cyberpunk novelist, William Gibson, introduces the 2016 National Education Technology Plan (NETP) released today by the U.S. Department...
Dec 9, 2015Grading the 2010 National Education Technology PlanMy, how times have changed. Mostly. The first National Education Technology Plan was published in 1996, when Netscape ruled the web browser market, Apple was an afterthought, and America Online barraged our mailboxes with silvery streams of...
Sep 10, 2015Which US States Are Most ‘Future Ready’ For Digital Learning?The Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology has been on the road this year. From Providence to Phoenix, the government’s team has criss-crossed the country encouraging school district leaders to sign the Future Ready Pled...
May 11, 2015Department of Education Kicks Off "Edtech Developers' Tour"Oh, what a time to be a fledgling edtech entrepreneur! North America is home to more than a dozen edtech incubators, LearnLaunch in Boston to Imagine K12 in California -- and MaRS in Toronto. Now the Department of Education is amping up tho...
Mar 3, 2015Ms. Stevens Goes To WashingtonKatrina Stevens, who led the EdSurge Summit team for a year and played a pivotal role in startup EdtechMaryland at the same time, has settled for one job--this with the US Department of Education as a senior advisor in the office of educati...
Jan 26, 2015NewSchools Spins Off New, For-Profit Venture FundNewSchools Venture Fund (NSVF) is not coy about its role in reforming education, starting with championing the charter school cause. “The charter school movement might look different today had it not been for NewSchools supporting these ent...
Jan 15, 2015White House Launches Nationwide Superintendent SummitsBack in the fall, U.S. district superintendents took big steps towards making their districts “future ready.” First, more than a thousand lent their signatures to the Future Ready Pledge, a list of blended learning stipulations that include...
Nov 19, 2014President Obama Collects Pledges from Superintendents to Make Districts 'Future Ready'President Barack Obama opened his remarks at the “ConnectED to the Future” gathering with an offer to write any superintendent a note to excuse their absence from school since they were “playing hookie” to visit the White House. Rubbing sho...

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