Successful ‘edupreneurs’ reignite for-profit debate
Frederick M. Hess, the director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and I coauthored this piece. Julie Petersen’s piece, “For Education Entrepreneurs, […]
Frederick M. Hess, the director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and I coauthored this piece. Julie Petersen’s piece, “For Education Entrepreneurs, […]
Jan 31, 2014
Ideally, the job of teacher preparation programs is to produce effective teachers. But tracking and measuring teacher effectiveness is tedious and expensive work, so teacher […]
Jan 13, 2014
Those of you who took time out to channel surf over the holidays may have come across University of Phoenix’s Hall of Success ad campaign. […]
Jan 8, 2014
Over the last month, journal headlines have been heralding the death of massive online open courses (MOOCs). You could almost hear the sigh of relief […]
Jan 7, 2014
As K–12 blended learning has grown, efforts have popped up across the country to create breakthrough proof points that stretch our collective understanding of what is possible for […]
Jan 2, 2014
Coursera, the popular massive open online course (MOOC) platform, intrigues. With over 5 million students served and $85 million raised—both numbers are first among the “MOOC […]
Dec 19, 2013
There is an interesting parallel between teacher education programs and the history of the computer industry. In the 1970s, refrigerator-sized minicomputers were the cutting-edge machines of […]
Dec 17, 2013
Why people thought that the massive open online course (MOOC) providers would disrupt U.S. higher education by themselves by simply offering traditional university courses online […]
Dec 12, 2013
Over the last few months the debate over the effectiveness of teacher preparation programs has gained new momentum. This summer, US News & World Report […]
Dec 9, 2013
For some time, the business model that supports traditional colleges and universities has been breaking. The ability to continue to implement sustaining innovations—more research faculty, […]
Nov 14, 2013