Guest Commentary: Jeb Bush on Disrupting the Educational Status Quo

What's tops Jeb Bush's educational reform list?
"Applying digital learning as a transformative tool to disrupt the public education system, to make it more child-centered, more customized, more robust, more diverse, and more exciting," says the former Florida governor and co-founder of Digital Learning Now, a national advocacy group focused on advancing policies to create quality digital learning environments.
Bush sat down with a reporter from Reason magazine and talked about the virtual education movement, the obstacles to widespread acceptance of online classes, and his role in evangelizing for digital education.
Click here for a sneak peek of the May 2011 issue of Reason, which features the Bush interview.

Guest Commentary: Jeb Bush on Technology in the Classroom

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush teamed up with former Gov. Bob Wise this year to help create the Digital Learning Council, an education policy group dedicated to encouraging states to bring technology into classrooms.
The goal of the group is to "move digital learning to the forefront of education and away from the 'niche role' " it currently plays in too many schools.
Bush sat down with Washington Post Education Writer Jay Mathews for a wide-ranging conversation and education, technology, and the future.
Click here to see a video of that conversation.