Cybersecurity

As in years past, this new year will bring all sorts of new technology to schools. The question for educators is: To what degree do these technologies enhance education? “Figuring out which tech belongs in education is just the start” says Kelly J. Calhoun, research director at Gartner Research, a Connecticut-based market analysis firm. “The […]

Education faces no shortage of important challenges in the quest to improve our nation’s schools. Whether it’s the debate over testing, racial issues, learning standards or shrinking funding, 2017 promises to be a year of change—for better or worse. We asked education thought leaders and experts to identify a single issue in K12 education where […]

This year, District Administration’s Readers’ Choice Top 100 Products features selections from more than 1,500 nominations that range from cutting-edge student information systems and cloud-based security to innovative gamification software and state-of-the-art classroom projectors. Administrators and school leaders nationwide have shared feedback on a wealth of education resources to help their K12 peers find the […]

K12 educators increasingly embrace life skills curricula that promote social-emotional learning, mindfulness, problem-solving and other soft skills. Many districts no longer view such programs as “nice to have” but as essential components of overall instruction. The growing emphasis on life skills is making an impact. In schools where students demonstrated significantly improved social and emotional […]

Marc Prensky, an authority on the connection between learning and technology, coined the phrase “digital native” in 2001. In his new book, Education To Better Their World: Unleashing the Power of 21st-Century Kids (2016, Teachers College Press), Prensky says our current education system is wrong for the future—not because we haven’t added technology and so-called […]

Why is there such an emphasis on personalized learning today for K12? Educators want to work with students the way they learn best, and we know that one-on-one or small-group instruction is effective. But for the sake of efficiency, schools often employ the “factory” model to teach large numbers of students in a classroom, assuming […]