[Clayton] Christensen and colleagues don’t suggest that [our K-12 education system is] going out of business but they do say it will be transformed by a pair of disruptive innovations: technology (online learning, in particular) and a shift to “student-centric” learning...
Not so long ago, I doubted that computers, cell phones, and the internet would make any more difference in American education than television had...Well, I was wrong...
by John E. Chubb (Distinguished Visiting Fellow and member of the K–12 Education Task Force) and Terry M. Moe (Senior Fellow and member of the K–12 Education Task Force)
The substitution of technology (which is cheap) for labor (which is expensive) can vastly increase access to an elite-caliber education...
May 16, 2012 | Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
by Paul E. Peterson (Senior Fellow and member of the K–12 Education Task Force)
The idea of a second campus on the East Coast was always a distraction. Why not take that same pot of gold—or, more exactly, a handful or two out of that pot—and start building a digital university for the ages...
We increasingly have good policies in place, but we don't know how to turn them into reality. And because most policies aren't self-implementing, we have to solve the problem of "delivery" if reform is going to add up to a hill of beans...
by Paul E. Peterson (Senior Fellow and member of the K–12 Education Task Force)
Putting districts in charge of online learning, while allowing them to contract out to private providers if they wish, creates a competitive marketplace within a legitimate political framework...
Personally, I’d like to see performance-based pay for all schools. That won’t fly anytime soon, but performance-pay for online learning (at the least the full-time, virtual charter school version) could. Which state is ready to give it a try...?
