Creative Minds Meet at NEA-Sponsored Imagination Summit

By Cindy Long America’s Imagination Summit 2011, which kicked off Thursday at the Lincoln Center in New York City, is bringing together leaders from education, science, business and the arts to talk about the best ways to provide our students the skills they need to thrive in the 21st century: imagination, creativity and innovation. Albert [...]

Duncan: Technology Will Transform Student Learning

By Tim Walker Secretary of Education Arne Duncan placed technology front and center in the national dialogue over education reform earlier this month when he unveiled the Obama administration’s education technology plan. The plan, titled “Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology,” was developed over the past 18 months (an initial plan was released last [...]

Education Summit Advocates 21st Century Collaboration, Creativity

By Meredith Barnett According to the hundreds of educators and policymakers who attended the NEA-supported National Education Summit on 21st Century Readiness today, teachers should be training students in the four Cs in addition to the 3 Rs of reading, writing and arithmetic. Those Cs stand for critical thinking/problem solving, communication, collaboration and creativity/innovation. The [...]

NEA Says Ed Reform Must Include Languages

By Amanda Litvinov World languages and international education are crucial to the future success of America’s students — and that’s why NEA is part of a coalition working to increase our schools’ capacity to teach them. “Our students deserve an education that prepares them to be global citizens,” said NEA Executive Director John I. Wilson [...]