The REAL Commission—Can We Keep it Real?
Last month I learned that I had been appointed to theRecommendations for Education and Advancement of Learning (REAL) Agenda Commission whose job is to recommend an initial research and policy agenda for Digital Promise by producing a report to be delivered in April to White House Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra. Digital Promise is a national center created by Congress to advance technologies to transform teaching and learning. The Commission is chaired by Dave Belanger, from AT&T, Arden Bement, from Purdue University, and Tracey Wilen-Daugenti, from Apollo Research Institute, and its membership includes representatives from technology companies, some of whom have been doing business with K-12 schools for some time and some of whom have not. The commission is managed by TechAmerica Foundation and facilitated by Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow. The only practicing K-12 educator on the commission is Maribeth Luftglass, CIO in the Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia. I represent the remainder of the K-12 education community….a huge responsibility.
