A Better Path to Learning

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  • Good Schools vs. Bad Schools

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    I started teaching in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) in 1984. I left the district to lead a Houston-based educational non-profit in 2008 and retired from that organization in 2018. I was either part of HISD or a partner to the district for 35 years. And during those 35 years, there were 15-20 schools…

  • Michael Horn is Spinning His Tires

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    About a year ago, Michael Horn was Tom Vander Ark’s guest on a Getting Smart podcast. Horn is the co-founder of and a distinguished fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, a non-profit think tank and an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Horn had just written a new book…

  • Friday News Roundup

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    It’s Friday! Time for the News Roundup. There’s Lots at Stake for Districts and Kids When Underenrolled Schools Stay Open (The 74) When I worked for the Houston public schools, one of the hardest tasks we had to do was close underenrolled schools. In fact, I would say NOT closing schools that needed to be…