Ed Tech confronts Obama’s mandate for change Heather Staker Ed Tech confronts Obama’s mandate for change President Obama’s FY2011 budget proposal zeroes out funding for the Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program, thereby eliminating the primary line item for federal Ed […] June 16, 2010 Heather Staker
Innosight Institute and HP collaborate on global “HP Catalyst Initiative” for STEM education, seek grant applicants Michael B. Horn Innosight Institute and HP collaborate on global “HP Catalyst Initiative” for STEM education, seek grant applicants Innosight Institute is collaborating with the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) Office of Global Social Innovation in the launch of a new global education grant program called […] June 9, 2010 Michael B. Horn
Is Apex Learning for everyone? Heather Staker Is Apex Learning for everyone? 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 Heather Staker
The new classroom: online education and charter schools Michael B. Horn 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 Michael B. Horn
An open mind: transforming higher education Michael B. Horn An open mind: transforming higher education The article “An Open Mind” from the New York Times came out a little while back but it related enough to some of the higher […] June 3, 2010 Michael B. Horn
Transforming higher ed: Explaining the QV Index Michael B. Horn Transforming higher ed: Explaining the QV Index In an op-ed in the Washington Times a couple weeks ago, I introduced the idea of a QV Index in higher education to create the […] May 27, 2010 Michael B. Horn
Autism Training Solutions Heather Staker 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 Heather Staker
In education, for-profit gets a bad rep Michael B. Horn In education, for-profit gets a bad rep In the May 20, 2010 Huffington Post, Michael B. Horn has an op-ed titled “In education, for-profit gets a bad rep,” in which he talks […] May 20, 2010 Michael B. Horn
Transforming higher education Michael B. Horn Transforming higher education In an op-ed in the May 6, 2010 edition of The Washington Times, Michael B. Horn offers thoughts about the imperative of transforming the funding […] May 20, 2010 Michael B. Horn
Pandora for learning is music to my ears Heather Staker 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 Heather Staker
Stop the madness and stop cutting learning time Michael B. Horn 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 Michael B. Horn
Time to rethink the curriculum adoption process Heather Staker Time to rethink the curriculum adoption process On a typical evening from 1993 to 1994, I took the elevator to the VIP lounge atop the Sacramento Hyatt for happy hour with fellow […] May 12, 2010 Heather Staker