ED Surge – Peter Glenn
“Project-Based Learning (PBL) is one of the hottest buzzwords in education, and it’s easy to see why. PBL combines standards-based curriculum with empowering students to solve real world challenges. Through projects, students master skills—critical thinking, creativity, communication, and collaboration—that are hard to teach in traditional classrooms. Some project-based schools even report 20% higher standardized test scores than those with conventional classrooms. As a co-founder of CrowdSchool, a PBL platform, I’ve spent nearly two years talking with teachers, schools, and districts about how to make it easier to teach with PBL. Despite the mounting evidence and excitement for project-based learning, only roughly 1% of US schools are committed to teaching with it.”(more)