Noisy customers
This week, Pennsylvania’s Sun Gazette reported here that Muncy School District has developed online courses at a cost of “pennies on the dollar” compared to […]
This week, Pennsylvania’s Sun Gazette reported here that Muncy School District has developed online courses at a cost of “pennies on the dollar” compared to […]
Aug 19, 2010
“The Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers” has been on the NYT.com top-ten-most-popular list for several days running. In the article, David Leonhardt reports that economists […]
Aug 12, 2010
In my last blog I wrote about how the traditional school system hampers student progress by tethering all students to common pacing, thereby handicapping a student like […]
July 20, 2010
In the satirical science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron is too smart, too attractive and too strong. By official edict of the […]
July 9, 2010
School is out for summer, and one glance at the bronzed bodies of the little people in my neighborhood in Hawaii leaves no doubt that […]
June 30, 2010
President Obama’s FY2011 budget proposal zeroes out funding for the Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program, thereby eliminating the primary line item for federal Ed […]
June 16, 2010
In a conversation with one of the principals featured in a forthcoming Apex Learning case study, the principal noted that males under the age of […]
June 9, 2010
In a recent blog, Michael B. Horn identified how Rethink Autism’s business model bears many of the traits of a disruptive innovation. The new company […]
May 26, 2010
How I love this Freakonomics Radio podcast (click on Episode 1). It compares public schools to a bad radio station, which broadcasts one stream of […]
May 20, 2010
On a typical evening from 1993 to 1994, I took the elevator to the VIP lounge atop the Sacramento Hyatt for happy hour with fellow […]
May 12, 2010