Blogs on Education Trends

As school districts across the country are working diligently to unpack and implement the Common Core Standards for Mathematics and English Language Arts, another initiative has been steadily progressing. The initial public draft of the Next Generation Science Education Standards will be released in a few months.

We continue our week long Virtual Deeper Learning Community of Practice where we hope to engage the Edutopia and larger education community in an online dialogue about teacher practice for deeper learning. We are exploring the following question from multiple perspectives -- exemplary practices, policy, professional development and coaching teachers towards deeper learning.

Can you remember what you did in the last 54 hours? Chances are you didn't create a company. But that's exactly what some entrepreneurs and educators did at this past weekend's Startup Weekend Edu. In just over a weekend, many startups were launched with a mission to leverage technology and innovation to help improve education.

Can you remember what you did in the last 54 hours? Chances are you didn't create a company. But that's exactly what some entrepreneurs and educators did at this past weekend's Startup Weekend Edu. In just over a weekend, many startups were launched with a mission to leverage technology and innovation to help improve education.

Editor's Note: Along with the National Writing Project, Figment, and The New York Times Learning Network, we are celebrating the National Day on Writing today. As part of this celebration, we're inviting writers to share the why of writing in an essay, poem or post. Please add your own thoughts in the comment section below, and/or follow the hashtag #whyiwrite on Twitter.