Ideas & Innovations
This is our hub for ideas and innovations with the potential to transform education.
This educator skipped the traditional teacher route and headed straight into entrepreneurship
DAVENPORT, Fla. – Valeria Oquendo didn’t set out to be an entrepreneur. “Ms. V,” as her students call her, had wanted to be a teacher since she was a teenager. On her way to an elementary education degree, she interned at a public school and, initially, those dreams became even... READ MORESurpluses are just a party, and parties…
During World War II the British kept a group of stately manors for high-ranking German military prisoners. The British treated them well in these gilded cages, giving them full access...
READ MORE‘If you don’t innovate, you will stagnate’: Florida charter schools urged to evolve
Education is no longer about students sitting in rows of desks from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. And school choice, the term supporters used for years to describe the movement...
READ MOREFamilies adapt to the dysfunctional K-12 system — if they can afford it
Education Next published a piece recently by Holly Korbey called The Tutoring Revolution, which reads in part: Recent research suggests that the number of students seeking help with academics is...
READ MORESchool field trips making a comeback as education savings accounts allow more opportunities to learn by doing
TAMPA, Florida — The 22 high schoolers at Integrity Tabernacle Christian Academy donned their school T-shirts and left at dawn for the two-hour bus trip from near Orlando to ride...
READ MOREEducation Choice and Learning by Doing
Some of the most valuable learning experiences happen outside the classroom. Public education is evolving to support more learning by doing.
READ MOREMatchED and the way of the future for permissionless education
In the early days of education savings accounts, several of our intrepid Scooby-gang members wrote and spoke about user reviews as the future of “accountability.” In a multi-vendor system, we...
READ MOREFlorida parents and educators may be building the education value networks of the future
Despite calls for reform and waves of attempted transformation, key features of American schools have been remarkably stable for more than a century. Students spend six or so hours...
READ MOREDon’t double down on one-size-fits-all measurement
A surefire way to get heads nodding at an education policy conference is to call for dismantling the Carnegie unit. The question, and a legitimate fear, is whether efforts to...
READ MOREA trade in other people’s children
An episode of Paul MM Cooper’s outstanding documentary podcast series “The Fall of Civilizations” recounts the history of Carthage, which includes details of wars fought between the Carthaginians and Syracuse...
READ MOREThe transition to the third era of US public education has begun
U.S. public education has had three primary eras. The first era reflected the needs of a sparsely populated rural agrarian society. Most children were homeschooled and literacy focused primarily on...
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