This week I joined a group of amazing education leaders and student activists to host a worldwide online event on rethinking digital citizenship. The event was designed to call attention to the fact that we need a much deeper conversation about how to help young people be their best selves…

Education has a problem. It’s not a shortage of great ideas. Solutions to just about every challenge in education have already been discovered by a teacher in a classroom somewhere or a researcher in some university. …

Or why coding should be a required course in the humanities — As an undergrad at Brigham Young University I majored in Humanities. Spanish language teaching to be specific, and proud of it. At the time I chose my major I never expected I would spend most of my career in technology related roles. …

By Richard Culatta and Sandy Speicher While there might not be obvious similarities between a Silicon Valley start-up and a public college in Rhode Island, taking a page from the tech- industry playbook may be the key to the future of higher education. It doesn’t take long during a conversation…

by Richard and Shaundra Culatta There’s an old joke that goes, “You call someone who speaks two languages bilingual. You call someone who speaks three languages trilingual. You call someone who speaks one language American.” Only it’s not really a joke. 66% of children in the world are raised to…

As a former language teacher, I love examples of translations that didn’t turn out quite as they were intended. There’s the famous example when the U.S. auto-maker Chevrolet marketed the Nova in Latin America: no va in Spanish means “doesn’t go”. Airports seem to be a great place to find…

A call for better methods for evaluating educational apps Richard Culatta and Katrina Stevens, U.S. Department of Education As increasingly more apps and digital tools for education become available, families and teachers are rightly asking how they can know if an app actually lives up to the claims made by…