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Patrick Kelly, Group Leader for Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Information Sciences Group has joined the team developing the computer education model which will produce a complex predictive model to study education data for the San Jose Unified School District.

On a beautifully temperate day in New Mexico, Los Alamos National Laboratory hosted the DRK12 team to discuss progress on the flexible model framework and define the data attributes that will guide both the model and the simulation output of the predictive education model. LANL modeling team members

This week, the Chronicle of Higher Education published an article that I wrote entitled “Cloud Technology Can Lift the Fog Over Higher Education.”

Creating the National Laboratory for Education Transformation, or NLET, has been a fascinating journey. The idea is simple enough...

In the creative and interesting capital of the state of Texas, the DRK12 team had a productive meeting hosted by the University of Texas, Austin’s Department of Education. The meeting brought team members from across the US as far as Boston and Northern California. What might have been a difficult d

Thirteen years ago, I was asked to give a seminar at The 3rd Annual Global Village Schools Conference in ...

Gordon Freedman's article subtitled 'How Do We Create "Smart" Colleges?' was posted this morning in The Source...

Co-PI’s Michael Strong and Paul Resta had the opportunity today to contact team members and congratulate them on the successful funding of the NSF DRK12 project: Dynamic Modeling of School Variables to Predict 8th Grade Math Performance. With the official launch of the project, the team is eager to

This is the time of year when we get to read commencement speeches, commentary on commencement speeches, commentary on the commentary on commencement speeches, and so on into recursive bliss. There tends to be a great deal of focus on … Continue reading →