Surveys

SPEAK UP: Teachers and students won’t see eye-to-eye on everything, and the latest Speak Up Research Project for Digital Learning shows perspectives about edtech are no exception. In the report, which asked more than 514,000 educators, students and parents about trends in technology, nearly half of high school students said their teachers assign homework that requires internet access daily, while less than 10 percent of teachers said they did so...

AMERICAN NIGHTMARE? The belief that higher education is the path to to achieving the “American Dream” appears to be wavering, according to a recent study by the think tank New America. According to the study, 78 percent of Americans believe “it’s easier to be successful with a college degree,” and only a quarter think higher education is "fine" the way it is...

THE FUTURE OF JOBS—AND CAPITALISM? “Training and learning systems will not meet 21st-century demands by 2026.” So states one of the five themes in a new Pew Research Center report, “The Future of Jobs and Jobs Training.” The exhaustive, qualitative survey of leading academics, thinkers and technologists questions not just whether today’s tools are preparing learners for tomorrow’s jobs—but whether there will be any jobs at all...

NATION’S TOP HIGH SCHOOLS: The BASIS Charter School Network is putting Arizona on the map, taking up four of the five top spaces on U.S. News and World Report’s National Best High Schools Rankings.

Information technology instructors are the backbone of many K-12 schools. They often operate as both instructors and tech support gurus, and they’re key to keeping increasingly digital schools running smoothly.