Threshold Magazine - New Directions
Spring 2008

The Spring 2008 issue of Threshold: Exploring the Future of Education features articles focused on mapping the forces that will change the education landscape over the next decade, produced in partnership with KnowledgeWorks Foundation.

	Change Agents From chronic diseases to religious fundamentalism, digital diversity to urban uncertainties, Barbara Diamond looks at major new forces in today’s society that are redefining and reshaping the future of education.
	Open Learning Gary W. Matkin explores what open textbooks tell us about the revolution in education.
	The Future of Education: A Threshold Forum Kevin Clark, Carl E. Harris, Charles House, Henry Kelly, and Monica Martinez discuss how technology is raising new questions about knowledge, assessment, and the role of educators.
	2006–2016 Map of Future Forces Affecting Education A forecast of external forces that are important in shaping the context for the future of public education and learning in the next decade. A special pull-out section.
	Options and Opportunities Stephen Downes looks at how new technologies and demand from students and parents are spurring schools around the world to offer an increasingly diverse range of learning opportunities.
	An Explosion of Pedagogical Agents Charters and other schooling alternatives give educators a much-needed chance to innovate, according to Tim McDonald and Ted Kolderie.
	Departments
	Explorations On the threshold of change: Cable in the Classroom’s Douglas Levin and KnowledgeWorks Foundation’s Chad Wick on how education leaders can help school communities chart an effective course for the future.
	About Threshold Who we are, what we do, and why.
	In Focus Changing demand for work skills, chronic health conditions in schools, wired teachers, and more.