Video games hook people on reading
There was a series of articles recently in the New York Times about video games and computers in education. One about using video games to […]
Nov 26, 2008
Topics: K-12 Education
Interview with Clayton Christensen in IdeaConnection
Innosight Institute cofounder and Disrupting Class coauthor Clayton M. Christensen conducted an interview with IdeaConnection, which was published online today. The article, Embracing Disrupting Change, […]
Nov 4, 2008
The week that was
I had planned originally to blog again about higher education, but this has been a busy few days of activity around the book and its […]
Oct 30, 2008
Disrupting Class and the presidential election
Clayton Christensen and I have a new article out in Business Week online today in the Viewpoint section. Titled “McCain: Education’s Disruptor-in-Chief?” the article is […]
Oct 21, 2008
Nonconsumption of education outside the U.S.
Staying with the nonconsumption theme from last week, let’s think about the biggest area of nonconsumption in education that just cries for disruptive education models […]
Oct 15, 2008
What’s the skinny on online education?
On Friday, September 26, 2008, EdWeek hosted a really interesting online chat with Susan Patrick, president and CEO of the North American Council for Online […]
Sept 30, 2008
Joel Klein disrupting class
Our blog today brings us from D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee to New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein—two chancellors cut from a similar, if […]
Sept 25, 2008
Michelle Rhee wielding power tools
There are a lot of features right now about Michelle Rhee, the D.C. school chancellor, as she enters her second year at the helm. Everyone […]
Sept 15, 2008
Maine’s laptop program
Maine has instituted a bold program in its schools that provides every middle-school student with a laptop. The program is now moving into high school. […]
Aug 21, 2008
Disrupting Class in a podcast
Two of the coauthors of Disrupting Class, Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson, joined Paul Miller of Talis in the United Kingdom to conduct […]
Aug 19, 2008