December 2009
In the fall of 2008, Chicago Public Schools opened a new high school in a poverty-stricken, crime-ridden neighborhood that blended a traditional brick-and-mortar school environment with something much less familiar–a f...
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From its beginnings with a small $200,000 grant in 1997, the Florida Virtual School has grown to serve over 70,000 students a year. This case study details the policies and decisions that led to this disruptive growth.
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In the winter of the 2005-06 school year, Alpine School District decided to form an online K-8 school to support home-schooled students in the district. This case details that decision and the process of launching an onl...
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Clayton M. Christensen and co-authors Dr. Jerome H. Grossman and Dr. Jason Hwang apply the principles of disruptive innovation to the broken health care system. Together, they exhaustively examine the challenges facing h...
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Clayton M. Christensen and co-authors Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson take one of the most important issues of our time—education—and apply Christensen’s theories of disruptive innovation to K–12 public sch...
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