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Ted Kraver, Ph.D., is president of eLearning System for AZ Teachers & Students, Inc., a not-for-profit 501(c)3 volunteer systems design and advocacy task team. eSATS is a volunteer nonprofit advocacy organization that was formed in 2003 to transform Arizona’s K-12 education system from legacy education to eLearning. You can reach Ted at ted@kraver.cc.
I started this 2012-2013 school year with some pretty dire information in my column last month, “The New 21st-Century Wave.” We had made no progress on preparing all our children for a good education in the second half of the past century, and the first decade of the 2000s had been no better. However,...
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Charter schools are blessed with a challenge because it is the best of times and the worst of times. Our prior century of massive economic growth, human achievement, innovation, and benefits of education has reached its peak. Like all “S” curves of innovation it had to happen sometime, and that time is now. The...
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It’s an exciting time for proponents of enhanced and expanded technology in Arizona’s schools. As a result of a lot of hard work and a number of breakthroughs, Arizona has opened the door for significant educational advancement over the next several years. But sustained commitment is needed at both the state level and, most...
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The Education Innovation Summit 12 at ASU SkySong was an outstanding success. The dozens of sponsors, 100 presenting companies, and a host of investors and venture capitalists brought the attendance to 800. The annual Summit has shown about 50 percent year-over-year growth since 2010. The rich depth of presenters included Jeb Bush, founder and...
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I attended the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) “Reimagine Learning” conference in Washington, D.C., the first week of March. After five hours of ecstasy in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum I got to work with 40 vendors and 200 fantastic...
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It seems that the slow progress of public education transformation is taking a turn for the better. Leaders are now working to bring solid practices into play to support education. Bill Gates (Microsoft – not Phoenix Councilman) protests against a New York ruling that individual teacher evaluations can be made public. He asserts that...
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Reformers have driven major changes in the governance structure of education over the past 40 years. School and student equity have increased, especially in the special education arena. Funding has increased 50 percent when adjusted for inflation. But overall academic achievement and graduation rates have failed to increase. Governance focuses on the needs of...
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Over the decades you have read thousands of pages on the woes of education and scanned hundreds of lists and gone to dozens of meetings on what to fix. I would like to assure you that we are at the beginning of the end of our long trek. Here is the dynamic and élan...
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“A man must do three things in life: father a son, write a book and find his calling.” – Bill Maxwell 2006 Speech at Monroe School – Children’s Museum of Phoenix We are faced with the seemingly intractable challenge of transforming K-12 education into an accessible, effective, and efficient 21st-century system while simultaneously managing...
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