If you're a school or district leader who is considering using education technology and digital learning in your schools, stop ... That's why my organization, the Alliance for Excellent Education, recently launched Project 24, a ground-breaking new initiative to help school districts think strategically about how to integrate technology into instruction to ensure student learning is more engaged, rigorous, and relevant.
Former Governor Bob Wise says there are many ways ever advancing technology can help educators, here in West Virginia and across the United States, better teach their students ... “It’s not just about throwing kids in front of screens, that doesn’t do any good at all. It’s about a total integrated approach,” Wise, who is now the President of the Alliance for Excellent Education, said on Wednesday’s MetroNews Talkline.
As technology becomes a bigger part of the education process, West Virginia leaders are working to make sure it's being used in classrooms as efficiently as possible ... "We believe the best thing you can do; have a plan and then buy. Don't buy and then try to figure out how to use it," former West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise said.
West Virginia will begin a two-year review of classroom technology and new opportunities for digital learning ... Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin announced the review Wednesday. The state will work in concert with the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, D.C., based non-profit led by former West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise.
On the heels of the passage of his education reform package, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin announced Wednesday a statewide review of classroom technology ... That review comes with a new partnership with Project 24, a technology integration program developed by former Gov. Bob Wise.
A nonprofit group headed by former Gov. Bob Wise plans to help West Virginia schools conduct a two-year review of classroom technology and digital learning programs -- the first such statewide analysis in the nation ... Wise's organization, the Alliance for Excellent Education, will later help schools develop a comprehensive roadmap for using technology effectively so students become better prepared for college and jobs.
The business community has a lot of interest in how the nation’s education system is performing ... Former West Virginia Governor and President of the Alliance for Excellent Education, Bob Wise stated, “in an information age economy, the best economic stimulus is a diploma, and increasingly, it’s a series of diplomas.”
A flurry of good news appeared on the high school front this winter ... "What the president's remarks show me is that progress is being made and there are new models for high school that are emerging and producing results. The federal government is saying let's take advantage of that and step in and help," said Bob Wise, the president of the Washington-based Alliance for Excellent Education, which advocates high school improvement.
Governor Earl Ray Tomblin will be announcing Wednesday the next step in education reform relating to personalized learning ... That next step will be plans to undertake a statewide review of classroom technology use and digital learning capabilities with assistance from the Alliance for Excellent Education's Project 24.
If all the United States’ dropouts from the Class of 2006 had graduated, the nation could have saved more than $17 billion in Medicaid and expenditures for uninsured health care over the course of those young people’s lifetimes, according to estimates by the Alliance for Excellent Education, a national policy organization.
