Hack Education

Have I mentioned lately how much I like Drupal? Oh yes, yes I have. One of the reasons I like Drupal is its strong developer community. And sure, you can say that about a lot of open source. But some of the projects undertaken by Drupal I find real affinity...

Scholastic released the results from its 2010 Kids and Family Reading Report today. The study surveyed children age 6 to 17, along with their parents, and the results point to the changing ways in which kids view reading (and by extension, the way in which both education and publishers may...

As Michael Feldstein wrote earlier today, "This is pretty big news. SunGard Higher Education and rSmart have announced a partnership that could be a big boon for the open source learning management system Sakai. With this partnership, SunGard Higher Education will offer subscriptions to the rSmart Sakai CLE to its...

Many people are busy predicting "the death of publishing" with the rise of e-books. And even if we're far from the end of print, the pressures to rethink how textbooks are published and sold have put the online textbook rental company Chegg in a good position. According to BoomTown, Chegg...

The high school graduation rate in this country is less than 70%. We struggle to keep kids in school, let alone to provide them with the best possible learning experiences while they're there. I don't think Peter Thiel was thinking of this statistic when he announced onstage at Techcrunch Disrupt...

Google announced on Friday the recipients of its Project 10^100 funding: 5 organizations that Google believes have the ability to really change the world, by impacting the lives of as many people as possible. Three of the five recipients address the area of education directly, which I think is a...

"Looks like there's a press conference in 45 minutes with Mark Zuckerberg about his new education foundation," someone said in the ReadWriteWeb editorial room yesterday. "We've got the call in number. Audrey, want to get on the call?" Not really, on one hand. I mean, I'd just read his blog...

A(nother) rant: I don't typically write "the news" for ReadWriteWeb (although that's changing. Stay tuned for details). So I don't judge my performance by the number of times I get "Techmeme'd." Techmeme is a great site for breaking tech news, as it monitors what the leading publications are saying. The...

The microfunding site Kiva.org has announced a pilot program of Student Microloans on Kiva.org. With the program, anyone can lend as little as $25 to students in Bolivia, Lebanon, and Paraguay. As Premal Shah, president of Kiva.org says, "In developing countries, access to funding for education doesn't exist like it...

It's been a great week for those of us who base our reading lists and talking points on Oprah. Because now it's official. Education is an Important Issue. On yesterday's show, Bill Gates, along with Davis Guggenheim, director of the new documentary Waiting for Superman, were on hand to describe...