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I had the opportunity to speak with a doctoral class on systemic education reform at UC Berkeley a couple weeks back. I briefly walked them […]
I had the opportunity to speak with a doctoral class on systemic education reform at UC Berkeley a couple weeks back. I briefly walked them […]
July 29, 2010
More than nearly any writer I think I’ve read, Sarah Lacy of TechCrunch gets it. She understands disruptive innovation, as well as why some promising […]
July 23, 2010
Last week, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Mitchell D. Chester advised the State Board to build new restrictions into its […]
July 20, 2010
In my last blog I wrote about how the traditional school system hampers student progress by tethering all students to common pacing, thereby handicapping a student like […]
July 20, 2010
Innosight Institute cofounders Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B. Horn authored a provocatively headlined piece in Forbes titled “Education As We Know It Is Finished: […]
July 15, 2010
For those naysayers who have been suspect of whether online learning would continue to grow in the highly regulated K-12 sector as disruptive innovations do, […]
July 15, 2010
In the satirical science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron is too smart, too attractive and too strong. By official edict of the […]
July 9, 2010
Many have by now seen that the Gates Foundation is launching what it is calling “NextGen Learning Challenges,” with the aim of improving college readiness […]
July 1, 2010
School is out for summer, and one glance at the bronzed bodies of the little people in my neighborhood in Hawaii leaves no doubt that […]
June 30, 2010
In a conversation with one of the principals featured in a forthcoming Apex Learning case study, the principal noted that males under the age of […]
June 9, 2010