Place Based Education
Entrepreneurship
EdTech
Entrepreneurs Fight: Free Enterprise or Social Democracy
Fascinating conversation between Jon Stewart and Arthur Brooks as they talk about the battle over free enterprise or European-style socialism in the United States. The framework here is looking at whether college education erodes entrepreneurial thinking.
EdTech
VC Funding of Ed Set to Boom
VC Investments blogger Rafael Corrales believes VC dollars into education are set to soar, but let's remember there's a bureaucracy set up here.
Personalized Learning
Ten Problems Edupreneurs Must Solve
Tom Vander Ark posts this list of ten issues that education entrepreneurs must solve to make the education marketplace the real deal.
EdTech
Rick Hess: Fueling the Engine (Book Excerpt)
Rick Hess makes the case in his book excerpt, Fueling the Fire, that it's time for venture capital to start the greenfield education hotbeds of the United States.
EdTech
Interview: Chad Ratliff, Albermarle County Public Schools
Chad Ratliff, Assistant Director of Instruction and Innovation Projects at Albermarle County Public Schools.
EdTech
Interview: Marc Porter Magee, COO, ConnCAN
Interview with Marc Porter Magee, ConnCAN Chief Operating Officer. Building upon his experience leading the communications, development, research and government affairs teams at ConnCAN, Magee is launching a new venture called 50CAN: The 50-State Campaign for Achievement Now. Starting with a campaign in Rhode Island this spring, 50CAN hopes to reach one-third to one-half of the 50 states by 2015.
EdTech
Entrepreneur Thinking: What It Is, What It Ain't
My superintendent in the East Village apartment I rent would like me to believe that his solution for the cracks around the somewhat faulty plumbing in my bathroom ceiling and wall is entrepreneurial in its deployment and conceptualization. It most certainly is not. It is not Entrepreneur Thinking to “patch”…