Advanced Academics
In November, I had the opportunity to spend an entire day shadowing teachers at Advanced Academics, an online school that provides comprehensive middle and high […]
In November, I had the opportunity to spend an entire day shadowing teachers at Advanced Academics, an online school that provides comprehensive middle and high […]
Feb 15, 2011
In his State of the Union address, President Obama urged the country to out-innovate the rest of the world. If we want to bolster America’s […]
Feb 10, 2011
K-12 public education accounts for the biggest slice of state and local government budgets. In 2005, the public spent some $500 billion annually on K-12 […]
Feb 8, 2011
Feb 4, 2011
A couple weeks ago, the Aspen Institute convened a group of Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) applicants, investors of all stripes, and other innovators in […]
Feb 3, 2011
Traditional high schools are increasingly beginning to use online learning to enable students who have failed a unit assessment to retake the unit before they […]
Feb 2, 2011
Michael B. Horn and I teamed up last fall with the Charter School Growth Fund and Public Impact to conduct a market survey of blended-learning […]
Jan 27, 2011
Online learning is sweeping across America. In the year 2000, roughly 45,000 K–12 students took an online course. In 2009, more than 3 million K–12 […]
Jan 27, 2011
At VSS 2010, Michael B. Horn asked a panel of six online-learning leaders what policy they thought posed the greatest barrier to the growth of […]
Jan 25, 2011
There are two things wrong with Michelle Rhee’s recent oped, “In Budget Crises, an Opening for School Reform,” in the Wall Street Journal. First, it […]
Jan 24, 2011