Newsroom

Recent Publications and Activities

June 28, 2010: Educators, Technology and 21st Century Skills (PDF). This report explores the interplay between technology and a variety of key educational objectives. It presents finding from a national survey of teachers and administrators commissioned by Walden University (part of Laureate Education).

March 24, 2010: Release of An Open Source Platform for Internet-based Assessment (PDF). The report synthesizes findings from a study sponsored by the Educational Testing Service. The study included over 80 interviews with state assessment and education technology decision-makers (representing 27 states) along with national education opinion leaders.

January 5, 2010: Release of the PBS Public Survey Report (PDF) from the seventh Annual PBS Survey of Education Media & Technology conducted by Grunwald Associates LLC. The study examines K-12 educators’ use of — and attitudes towards — media and technology. And for the first time, this year’s survey was expanded to include Pre-K educators. The PBS News Release is also available.

December 2009: Using Surveys to Predict the Future of Social Media (PDF), in the December 2009 issue of C&R Research’s “The Beat” magazine. Our brief article addresses our social media survey findings and looks at the future.

Ongoing: We are now promoting a website that we designed and created for the National Science Foundation highlighting best practices in ‘citizen science’ and informal science education.

Speaking Engagements

January 7, 2010: Consumer Electronics Show: Kids@Play Conference Topic: The Future of Kids’ Services

March 2, 2010: Consortium for School Networking / National School Boards Association TED session Topic: Meeting the Needs of Today’s Digital Generation

March 13, 2010: National Association of College Stores: Campus Market Expo 2010 (CAMEX) Topic: Using Social Networking: Lessons from Today's Tweens, Teens, and Their Schools

May 10, 2010: International Institute for Research: Family Marketing Mega Event. Topic: The Education Connection: Using Social Media to Reach Parent and Kids

June 28, 2010: NECC (ISTE 2010) Topic: Moving Online Assessments Forward Using an Open Source Technology Platform

News Coverage

We encourage you to use any news database to search for coverage of Grunwald Associates research. Our work regularly receives coverage on many blogs, as well as the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek, NPR, MSNBC, CNN, AP and many other national and international outlets.