Giving Compass' Take:

• Betsy Corcoran discusses the strides made in education and learning this past decade and reveals how we must build and provide effective tools and support structures for students and educators for the future.

• How can donors help ensure educators will receive adequate support and resources?

• Learn about how trends in technology influence education.

The quiz seems deceptively easy: The past decade has seen literally hundreds of technologies and ideas emerge, many aimed at engaging or involving K-12 students and supporting student learning. So have students learned more?

According to that “big” test, the PISA, math and science test scores of all U.S. students have been largely flat since about 2000. But is asking how much students have learned the right question? What about how they have done that learning?

My bet: We’re partway along a path toward making fundamental changes in learning. And core to continuing that momentum will be changes in both tools and practices that support students’ close partners in learning, namely educators.

A decade ago, many people grumbled that walking into a school was like taking a trip back in time to say, the 1950s. No more. These days, millions of students in the U.S. and elsewhere regularly use software and curriculum developed within the past decade, often developed by small companies and former educators. Google, which officially debuted Classroom in 2014, is arguably as widespread in schools as Google’s usage is in the workplace.

Read the full article about what we've learned this decade by Betsy Corcoran at EdSurge.