“I spend a lot of my time trying to figure out how we preserve what is most important about the core of education and making sure it never becomes simply a product, that the spirit of education is something that actually, as they say, lights the flame within the student.”
Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement for the Department of Education James H. Shelton III is dedicated to enhancing American education through the increased application of new technologies to the classroom and beyond. To realize this goal, he focuses on improving the systems through which education is evaluated and managed.