What Grade Did Your State Get from the Foundation for Excellence in Education?

About 700 education reformers are gathering in San Francisco for the 2011 "Excellence in Action: National Summit on Education Reform."
The agenda is packed with panels, workshops and speeches by leading reformers and innovators. The Grand Ballroom of the headquarter hotel will be filled by "edu-preneurs," software and hardware companies, digital textbook companies and more.
For the remainder of the week, this will certainly be the center of the universe for education reformers--from charter school advocates to leaders of the digital learning movement.
Even if you can't be there, you can be a part of it. Click here to find a viewer for live streaming of many of the events. Be part of the conference conversation by getting on Twitter and using the summit hashtag #EIA11.
The centerpiece of the summit is scheduled for Thursday afternoon. That's when Digital Learning Now co-founders former Govs. Jeb Bush and Bob Wise will unveil the "Nation's Digital Learning Report Card." This will be Digital Learning Now's first assessment of states’ policies on digital learning. The goal is to make this an annual assessment.
Now governors and state school chiefs don't need to start quaking in their boots. What will be reveal is being called "Draft Digital Learning Report Cards." Governors and state education chiefs will have until Dec. 31, 2011 to challenge the findings. After that, letter grades, possibly the traditional A-F, could be handed out to the states. The hope is that the report cards will "provide state leaders and reformers with the right questions and the potential policies to advance digital learning in their states."
“Our goal is to ignite a movement of reform to transform education for the 21st century,” said Patricia Levesque, Executive Director of the Foundation for Excellence in Education.
Feel free to come back to Liberating Learning on Oct. 13 and Oct. 14 and click here to see the live stream from the conference.
Liberating Learning will also be focusing on how each state fares in this comprehensive look at digital learning policies with the first postings to go up minutes after the report card is published.