CER Invites Applicants for First Competitive Cohort through January 16, 2015
CER Press Release
Washington, D.C.
January 5, 2015
The nation’s leading pioneer and oldest education reform group today announced the launch of its pathbreaking EdReformU™, a full course of study designed to provide the next generation of reformers access to the nation’s leading authorities and pioneers in education reform, via mobile technology.
Applications for enrollment in EdReformU™ are being accepted through January 16, 2015. The ten-week certificate program pilot course represents a partnership with Qualcomm and is the first of a suite of courses to be built on the Qualcomm® QLearn™ Mobile Learning Platform. This higher learning program of education reform mentorship is the first of its kind to connect next generation participants with those who are responsible for the modern-day education reform movement.
This first foundational course, The Decline and Fall of the U.S. Education System – The Development of a Movement, will commence February 2, 2015 and run through April 10, 2015. The course will be led by Jeanne Allen, founder and president emeritus of CER, and is fueled by more than 15,000 resources in the EdReformU™ library. Adjuncts and guest lecturers include former Walton Foundation director and now Students First President Jim Blew, acclaimed researcher John Chubb, school choice founder Howard Fuller, charter school pioneers Donald Hense and Sara Tantillo, and CER president Kara Kerwin.
“Every generation has its talents and dreams, its unique selling points. This generation is leading our best schools, our foundations and our research organizations – and it will be better at it than mine,” said Jeanne Allen. “But the foundation of these organizations is owing to people and stories this generation may have never known – people who took the lumps and the arrows to make real changes possible. That is the purpose and reason for launching EdReformU™, because history is the best teacher and it’s a handy guide to avoiding repetitive failure as well as ensuring repetitive success.”
Only 50 slots are available for students in this pilot cohort. Accomplishment in the ten-week course will be recognized with a certificate and entitle those individuals to the subsequent coursework that is delivered, for free.
To enroll in EdReformU™, visit university.edreform.com.