The new classroom: online education and charter schools
Innosight Institute’s chairman, Gisele Huff, has an op-ed in The Hill’s Congress Blog. In the piece, titled “The new classroom: online education and charter schools,” […]
June 7, 2010
Autism Training Solutions
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
Pandora for learning is music to my ears
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
Stop the madness and stop cutting learning time
Students on balance need more time for learning. Chester Finn’s recent piece in the Wall Street Journal lays out the basic case around this. Meanwhile, […]
May 13, 2010
Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal and Innosight Institute Host Forum on Educational Innovation
PHILADELPHIA, May 6 /PRNewswire/ — On May 11, in conjunction with its Spring edition launch, the Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal will bring educational innovators from […]
May 9, 2010
Paul Peterson on Disrupting Class, Liberating Learning, and Saving Schools
Paul Peterson has a piece up on the Education Next site titled, “Three New Books on Virtual Education: Competitors or Complements?” His ultimate conclusion? They […]
May 7, 2010
Do disruptive innovations always start as not as good?
I had an interesting discussion with Jose Ferreira, the founder of Knewton, a couple weeks ago after a panel that I moderated and on which […]
Apr 29, 2010
Michael Horn on innovative education programs in Florida
TheSunshineStateNews — April 16, 2010 — Michael Horn, cofounder and executive director of Innosight Institute, and adjunct scholar at the James Madison Institute speaks on innovative education programs in Florida
Apr 26, 2010
Florida Governor Crist’s veto
I was in Tallahassee, Florida’s capital, last week on the day that Governor Charlie Crist vetoed what is known somewhat famously—or infamously—as Senate Bill 6. […]
Apr 23, 2010
Wichita’s Learning Centers for dropouts and at-risk students part 2
Last week I wrote about Innosight Institute Education Research Fellow Katherine Mackey’s case study on Wichita Public Schools and some things that jumped out at […]
Apr 16, 2010