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Before I spoke to Kevin Kalra of Houston’s Montessori Preschool, I would have thought “digital Montessori” education was an oxymoron like “jumbo shrimp,” “rolling stop,” or “civil war.” After talking with him, I was so impressed by the thoughtful way he and his compatriots are working through a difficult situation and trying to provide a […]
The Partnership Schools operate seven Catholic schools in Harlem and the South Bronx in New York City. They serve more than 2,000 students in two of the poorest Congressional districts in the United States. As schools across the country transition to digital instruction in the wake of COVID-19, many observers argue that schools serving low-income […]
There is an old proverb that says the best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago but the second-best time is today. For Julie Ambler and her staff at The Woodlands Christian Academy in suburban Houston, Texas, investments in technology and its use have paid dividends as they transition to a 100 percent […]
Every year, as part of our Schooling in America survey, we ask American parents where they would educate their children if money and logistics were no obstacle. In 2019, the results looked like this: The red segment of the top bar shows that around 13% of American parents would like to homeschool their […]
“If my child attends a school of choice, can I get help with transportation?” This is an incredibly common question amongst parents interested in taking advantage of inter-district enrollment programs, charter schools, or private school choice programs. They want to send their child to a different school, but they cannot get them there on their […]
More than a decade ago, Kevin Kelly, founding executive of Wired magazine, published a blog post titled 1,000 True Fans. It has become an incredibly influential resource for upstart technology entrepreneurs, artists and do-it-yourselfers looking to start their own business. The premise is simple. To be a successful business, you don’t need millions of customers, […]
If your child was viciously bullied at school every day to the point that they wanted to harm themselves, what would you do? If your child was sexually assaulted at school and then told by an administrator that she had to go back to class with the student who brutalized her, what would you do? […]
Daarel Burnette of Education Week wrote a provocative piece earlier this month titled “Face It, School Governance Is a Mess.” His core argument is tough to dispute: No one knows who is in charge of K–12 education. If you don’t like something going on in your child’s school, who do you go to? Your local […]
We present three steps to making hybrid homeschool work. In Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey Moore applies the “whole product” concept to his technology adoption lifecycle. Because products never fully live up to the promises of salespeople or the expectations of consumers, innovators must augment their products with services and supplementary products that make it do […]
We present four profiles of potential hybrid home-schoolers. In Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm, he recommends that purveyors of new technologies create libraries of “customer characterizations,” profiles of potential users of their technology. Who might use our product? How might they use it? What problems do they need to have solved? Moore recommends that […]