iGeneration - 21st Century Education

In the ten years since the launch of No Child Left Behind, these efforts have intensified. The results have been unimpressive. Graduation rates continue to falter and students and teachers alike are becoming more disaffected.

Bill Gates in an exclusive interview offers his cure for what ails the education system.

What role do the mega-rich and mega-powerful play in education? Did you know that billionaires are changing education? Time to read up.

Technology provides tools for students to learn in a way different from past generations.

Our education system is not broken, it has just become obsolete When I think of all the tremendous, seemingly impossible feats made possible by entrepreneurs, I am amazed that more has not been done to reinvent our education system.

21st-century schools need 21st-century technology.

 
How to Protect Your Screenplay 
 
by C.J. Perry
 
Finally, you have completed your script. After countless drafts, workshops, and merciless editing sessions, you now have a correctly formatted, workable manuscript.

Classrooms are evolving, and smartphones and tablets are just the beginning.

As an educator of many years and after extensive travel and observation, I found myself reflecting on our education system and a decision lay before me: remain within the status quo or step out and try to change things.

“We're living in a 21st century knowledge economy, but our schools, our homes, and our culture are still based around 20th century expectations,” said then-Senator Barack Obama in a 2005 speech to the American Library Association.

Ashwin mentioned a couple of theories postulated by international educational reformers and emphasized on the very significant need to change from a 'marks-i...