Are the items written with language appropriate for the intended audience? Is the assessment reliable across diverse groups of respondents? Here's some research on how to choose the right assessment for your students.
Cybersecurity has soared to the top of most districts' top tech concerns. But IT leaders can't use an important source of federal funding, E-rate, to cover the increasing costs of protecting district data.
In the 1990s, family and consumer sciences (FCS) was used to expand the personal and occupational skills of students. Today, project-based learning and decision making are the focus for both hard skills, like financial literacy, cooking and design, and soft skills, like how to present oneself at work or a job interview, how to interact with others, and when to get off your cell phone.
School choice, an issue that has divided parents for years, is on the ballot in three states this November: Colorado, Kentucky and Nebraska. Choice programs allow states to spend public funds for private or alternative schools.
The senior director of information technology at Digital Promise, which brings together solutions across research, practice and technology to shape the future of learning and advance equitable education systems, Doersch is also the board chair of the Consortium of School Networking (CoSN).
