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Disrupting class.(correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
Clay Christensen and Michael Horn's essay ("How Do We Transform Our Schools?" features, Summer 2008) has a plaintive quality to it. Their argument about disruptive innovation is compelling in a for-profit setting, not so in elementary and secondary schools, which are positively hostile to innovation, nondisruptive as well as disruptive. It makes no difference whether the schools in question are public or private, not-for-profit or for-profit. They all look and act the same. Why? The culture: in the things that matter--organization, administration, curriculum, teaching, and learning--they are all cut from the same cloth.
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Consider entrepreneurial behavior for a moment. It requires incentives (to think as an entrepreneur) and rewards (to behave as an entrepreneur). Neither exists in elementary and secondary schooling. To the contrary, schools are positively hostile to entrepreneurship, the key condition for successful innovation of any kind. What is more ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Disrupting class.(correspondence)(Letter to the editor)