I’m back from China (jet lagged and blurry-eyed)! One of the most interesting aspects of my visit to Anqing Teachers College for an international conference on Leapfrog Education is that the Leapfrog Institutes and Education Futures websites were non-accessible from within China, but were available to the rest of the world. The Golden Shield Project, [...]

Directed by a Twitter update, I landed on the PF HYPER blog… which directed me to a Wikipedia article on Open Space Technology: In Open Space, a facilitator explains the process and then participants are invited to co-create the agenda and host their own discussion groups. Discussions are held in designated areas or separate rooms [...]

Education Futures readers in Minnesota are invited to join us for the next Horizon Forum meeting! Online Education: Innovation or Illusion? Facilitated by Jeffrey Schulz Friday, February 22 11:00am – 1:00pm Arthur Upson Room, Walter Library (University of Minnesota East Bank) As online education continues to explode at all school levels, many questions arise. Is [...]

Sometime ago, I had heard Thomas Friedman suggest that we often have 21st Century students and 20th Century teachers.  I felt indicted by this statement and hope that on my better days, that might actually be true. I taught for years in an urban setting, teaching for St. Paul Public Schools, and I began to question [...]

Jeffrey Schulz is a PhD student at the University of Minnesota in Educational Policy and Administration with heavy leanings toward Comparative International Development of Education. His research interests lie in the futures of education, particularly at the secondary level. Additionally, he has extensive teaching experience in urban education, and is currently working for BlueSky Charter [...]