Posted by Andrew J. Coulson on August 9, 2010
By Andrew J. Coulson
At the Techonomy conference last week, Bill Gates declared that going to school would soon be obsolete, and that ”five years from now, on the web, for free, you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world.” What’s interesting is that Bill was quick to note that he was talking only of higher education. K-12 [...]
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Posted by Andrew J. Coulson on July 19, 2010
By Andrew J. Coulson
As I write in the San Jose Mercury News today:
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett want the world’s billionaires to donate half their wealth to charity. If they’re successful with just their American peers, they’ll raise about $600 billion — an amount U.S. public schools spend in a single year. And therein lies a problem.
The problem [...]
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Posted by Andrew J. Coulson on June 30, 2010
By Andrew J. Coulson
Yesterday, Bill Gates addressed 4,100 charter school leaders and activists and told them that their movement “is the only place innovation will come from.”
Certainly there are innovative charter schools–and others that deploy traditional methods with such skill and dedication as to achieve results far above the norm (think Ben Chavis’ American Indian Charter Schools in [...]
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