Teaching, activism, and other (un)related stuff

Education Week: Former Apple Executive to Lead U.S. Ed-Tech Office

Interesting article on Karen Cator — new WH ed-tech guru.  From Apple and has done siginificant work wtih P21.  Skeptics seem to think that P21 is a corporate conglomerate that is “thinly veiled” as a group interested in advancing an educational agenda.  My initial reaction to P21 was the same — I even wrote to them to see how I could justify quoting them when they didn’t seem to have any academics or educators on their board.  But I have since been reminded that  the NCTE partnered with P21 to develop 21st literacy standards – which is  a huge endorsement of legitimacy in my book.