July 2011
Through an examination of Harvard and BYU-Idaho as well as other stories of innovation in higher education, Clayton M. Christensen and Henry J. Eyring decipher how universities can find innovative, less costly ways of pe...
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June 2011
By Michael B. Horn and Katherine Mackey
Online learning has the potential to transform the nation’s education system into a student-centric one. But currently the vast majority of policy does not reward operators for ...
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May 2011
By Heather Staker
How does blended learning look in the trenches? What tools and policies are making it work? This 178-page white paper reveals 40 organizations that are early blended-learning pioneers and the technolog...
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April 2011
By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan and Mina Katsis
Over the past several years, Grand Valley Health Plan of Grand Rapids, Michigan, has risen to enviable heights – ranking consistently among the nation’s ten best commercial ...
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April 2011
By Michael B. Horn
For-profits and nonprofits both have a place in delivering quality education. Education policies should define the desired outcomes from government spending without specifying the process used to achi...
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February 2011
By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan and Greg Beasley
Having drawn significant attention recently for being a model co-op health care system, Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative is quick to point out that being a co-op hasn’t...
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February 2011
By Heather Staker and Andrew Trotter
One-third of Alabama’s K-12 students live in rural areas. The state has struggled to provide them with advanced courses, foreign languages, and electives. This case describes how t...
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February 2011
By Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn, Louis Caldera, and Louis Soares
Higher education is in crisis across the nation. America’s colleges and universities are strapped for resources, students and families are fa...
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January 2011
By Katherine Mackey
This study examines the various ways that three districts–Auburn School District in Auburn, Wash., Volusia County Schools in Volusia County, Fla., and Wichita Public Schools in Wichita, Kan.–are ...
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