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.
