Clayton Christensen Uncovers Change In Schools
The research team behind Clayton Christensen’s 2008 book, Disrupting Class, deserves a lot of respect. It would have been easy to cite Howard Gardner’s “theory of multiple intelligences,” point out...
View ArticleThe Slow Awakening
The total reboot of global public education (which will no longer be public, by the way, but personal—what we call private now) is going to take time. Lots of time. I call it my 150-year project...
View ArticleAmen, Brother!
This from a series of questions asked the Dalai Lama on his Facebook Page: Question: How can we teach our children not to be angry? —Robyn Rice, GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. His Holiness: Children always look...
View ArticleSir Ken on Why Education Kills Divergent Learning Skills
Here is a very compelling presentation by Sir Ken Robinson, of TED Talk fame, animated on a whiteboard as he delivers it to a live audience. The presentation is just under 12 minutes long and it sets...
View ArticleWill Public Education Remain Public?
As already established under the Current Problem tab: “The majority of schools work on an annual calendar that was driven by the needs of an agrarian society. The curriculum still largely reflects the...
View ArticleEducation Starts At Conception
Parents are the First Teachers In the new education paradigm, education will be a lifelong habit. With the demand to stay up with the pace of change as motivation and the positive effect of learning...
View ArticleIs There Time For Ed Reform? Or Is It Time For Revolution?
The President is asking for your advice. In a program called Advise The Advisor, Melody Barnes, Director of the Domestic Policy Council and one of President Obama’s senior advisors on education policy,...
View ArticleEducation Is Unique To The Individual
So if education is unique to the individual, why is it that most students are forced to learn what all their peers are learning at the same time? And why must they learn it in the same way as everyone...
View ArticleWas There Ever Joy In School?
You might have seen the article in Forbes by Jessica Hagy that recently was shared by the many who would wish for a different learning environment for the world. Her list of 9 things that school taught...
View ArticleWe Are Not Alone!
The premise of this site is the idea that the system we call public education is broken. In the years since its launch, I have come to know that the concept of education itself is flawed as it’s...
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