Re-engineering the K-12 capsule for a difficult future
Back in 2015, I did a study on age-dependency ratios and the takeaway was simple: The status-quo is not an...
Read More >The only good option is a dead option!
At the conclusion of one of the most criminally underappreciated very bad movies of all time, the 90210 kids-turned-space-marines of...
Read More >Born free and breaking chains
“Man is born free,” Rousseau wrote, “but everywhere he is in chains.” Adam Thierer, a Mercatus Center scholar focused on...
Read More >Milwaukee parental choice program reaps benefits beyond academics
“There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in a test score analysis …” Shakespeare by...
Read More >Sal Khan as your school troop leader sounds joyfully disruptilicious
Last week, Lindsey Burke authored an interesting piece for redefinED titled, “Do pandemic pods represent disruptive technology?” A different question...
Read More >Disintermediation grows in K-12 education in pandemic pod era
Disintermediation: (noun), the elimination of an intermediary in a transaction between two parties Those of us working in K-12 education...
Read More >Micro-schools, rigorous distance learning never gonna give your innovative spirit up
Science writer Matthew Ridley has described the innovation process as one of trial and error in which individuals combine pre-existing...
Read More >SEC lays a multimillion dollar fine in Florida teacher-fleecing case
The great surrealist painter Salvador Dali is known to have signed forged paintings. “The only fake Dali,” the painter allegedly...
Read More >Pandemic pods and Amara’s law
Pandemic pods were all the rage in last week’s news stories as parents around the country began organizing into micro-schools....
Read More >You better start swimmin’ for the times they are a-changin’
Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that...
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