ed:future

a blog about the future of learning

(posts from April 2009 through May 2017 can be found at Teaching Excellence)

Posts tagged independent school

Future of Learning Top Reads for week of June 18 2018

Future of Learning Top Reads for week of June 18 2018

With reads from the Enrollment Management Association, Chalkbeat, and the New York Times …

Do you still hear all of the canaries in your coal mine?

Do you still hear all of the canaries in your coal mine?

One way to think about Sears is that it originally disrupted retail even more than Amazon is doing right now ...

Christian TalbotFebruary 27, 2018Morgan Housel, Kim Bhasin, Lance Lambert, Bloomberg, Bloomberg.com, "The Long, Hard, Unprecedented Fall of Sears", Collaborative Fund, Sears, Amazon, independent school

Inflation, 1997-2017

Inflation, 1997-2017

In the last twenty years, the cost of college has tripled ...

Christian TalbotFebruary 22, 2018Wall Street Journal, Bureau of Labor Statistics, American Enterprise Institute, inflation, college, independent school, K12

Innovation story: Hillbrook School (Los Gatos, CA)

Innovation story: Hillbrook School (Los Gatos, CA)

"How do we reimagine the independent school business model?"

That question launched the Hillbrook School and 11 other schools in their collaboration ...

Christian TalbotSeptember 12, 2017WeWork, The Hillbrook School, independent school, San Jose, Mark Silver, business model, Social Entreprneurship, Innovation, IDEO, Mission Vision Culture, Los Gatos, MISBO, Scott Center for Social Entrepreneurship