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
How online learning can help alternative schools
According to a recent survey from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences, a third of the districts that run alternative schools and […]
Apr 13, 2010
Wichita’s Learning Centers for dropouts and at-risk students part 1
Full-time virtual chartered schools and state virtual schools that offer online supplemental classes to traditional schools led the first wave of growth in K-12 online […]
Apr 8, 2010
Christensen and Horn on innovating in Jewish day schools
Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B. Horn have a piece in the Spring 2010 issue of HaYidion titled, “Innovate to Educate: Maximizing Students’ Potential Through […]
Apr 4, 2010
Learn online in Washington Post Outlook section
In the Washington Post’s Sunday, March 28, 2010 Outlook section, Katherine Mangu-Ward authored a piece titled, “Traditional schools aren’t working. Let’s move learning online.” The […...
Mar 27, 2010
Michael B. Horn on the MyGreatKid radio show
Michael B. Horn joined the MyGreatKid radio show to talk about disruptive innovation in education, questions about the future of education, as well as some […]
Mar 26, 2010
Snow days need not mean an end to learning
Snow wreaked havoc across the east coast this past winter. In Washington, DC, for example, school buildings shut down repeatedly because of snow; there was […]
Mar 18, 2010
Lecturing to the socially networked student
In a white paper for the Center for American Progress on innovations in higher education, we are exploring how to solve affordability and accessibility failures in the current system of higher education in the U.S. We a...
Mar 9, 2010
Washington online programs threatened briefly
A proposed budget out of Washington State’s House and Ways Means Committee last week would have eliminated funding for the state’s Alternative Learning Experience (ALE) […]
Mar 4, 2010
The ever improving online learning
Online learning conjures up lots of images in people’s minds. Some people imagine the vast possibilities for how it could develop as learning migrates to […]
Feb 11, 2010