It’s always exciting to win. But it’s even more exciting when winning means the potential to receive $15 million to help move North Carolina forward in its efforts to ensure that every student graduates from high school ready for college, careers, and life.
This month, we received word that the U.S. Department of Education ...
The passing of Steve Jobs gives us all an opportunity to evaluate his accomplishments and what we can learn from them. One takeaway that stands out is this: perhaps nobody in recent memory better combined “left-brain” and “right-brain” thinking than Jobs, who joined his love for the humanities and art with steely analytical thinking and discipline. Both served him ...
There’s a lot of talk these days about 21st Century Skills. At nearly every confab on education, the latest just-released report is cited calling for an urgent rethinking of our education system to produce graduates who possess not just mastery of content, but also the skills considered highly prized for a rapidly restructuring economy. The mantra-like calls for graduates ...
If you missed 60 Minutes last night, then take 12 minutes today to watch the interview with Freeman Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Under Hrabowski’s leadership, the school has become a leader in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education — last year, 41 percent of the bachelor’s degrees earned there were in STEM fields, well ...
Sitting in a conference recently, I found myself facing a new reality: I am a humanities teacher AND I am a STEM educator.
Since I began teaching, I have used technology to enhance instruction in my class. When I received word we would be part of a STEM school, I imagined I was already doing what ...