What’s Missing in Career Education Today?
Over $1.3 billion in Perkins funding from the federal government pours into secondary and post-secondary schools every year, totaling billions since 2006, and the effect has been minimal at best. A major factor: we need to solve the problem of helping people train for their future, not for a singular job. Instead of “education to earn a job” this needs to become “education for a life”. It needs to be available to all. And I believe in some forms it has begun but not been fully realized.Women’s History Month and Voices for Suffrage
Primary sources uncover stories and a perspective that we struggle to understand hundreds of years after the fact. For example, Sarah Wallace Pease's 1897 paper "Recollections of Sarah Wallace Pease" recalls her experience serving on a grand jury. Pease was one of the first women in the entire United States to serve on a jury after Wyoming signed woman suffrage into law in 1870 and soon after allowed women to serve on juries. The MOST Important Key to Making Remote Learning Work
The MOST Important Key to Making Remote Learning Work
You’ve been told to shut your school down and shift your students, teachers, staff and curriculum online. Is that realistic? Here is some advice from someone who has been in education for 30+ years, built online products and implemented programs in large online schools.
Origins, Voices for Suffrage Guide for Use
We are so happy to announce the release of our fifth Guided Tour on our Library of Congress funded Voices for Suffrage web application: Origins! Guided Tours are 20-minute guided lessons including videos and interactive activities to teach a specific piece of the movement.3 Major Trends for Games
Three astounding trends will propel digital games into an even greater force in the 2020s.