These 5 TED Talks are each given by an education professional or technology expert with their own unique vision for how to improve learning.

College deans have written about incoming freshman being "crispies" or "teacups": the crispies so burned out by the pressures of high school that they get to college unable to engage in the work, and the teacups so fragile or overprotected in their formative years that they fall apart at the first stress they encounter.  What can/should k-12 leaders do?

Our kids are awash in technology 24/7 - should we worry about the effects on their developing brains?

Students who have teachers who make them "feel excited about the future" and who attend schools that they see as committed to building their individual strengths are 30 times more likely than other students to show other signs of engagement in the classroom-a key predictor of academic success, according to a report released Wednesday by

one of a series of new early learning schools that model the approach of VINCI Education: a hands-on blend of low-tech and high-tech instruction, guided by a skilled classroom teacher.

At Thomas S. Wootton High School, teachers and administrators seem to be in agreement that field-testing for the common-core assessments is off to a bumpy start.

Problem?  Way too much low quality drowning out the useful information.

Does the SAT have real value?

More tech infrastructure needed.

Study: High school grades best predictor of college success - not SAT/ACT scores

Cool kid projects that educate other students.

Can't We Do Better?

Here's the resource that Alan November just shared with us on popular education hashtags.

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