http://jeffreyschulz.com Education in the 21st Century Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:45:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 http://jeffreyschulz.com/2007/10/23/a-vision-of-students-today/#comment-2 tomlellis Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:46:05 +0000 http://jeffreyschulz.com/2007/10/23/a-vision-of-students-today/#comment-2 Charter schools offer alternatives to public K-12 education. It is rather sad to think that universities, or all places, can't reform themselves. Maybe we need charter universities. Could you imagine the hue and cry if Minnesota would charter a new university that was charged with being innovative? As an intermediate step, perhaps BlueSky could partner with a post secondary institution and strongly encourage our 11th and 12th graders to do PSEO there, with the understanding that the postsecondary institution would have to work with us on innovative new curriculum and teaching practices. Charter schools offer alternatives to public K-12 education. It is rather sad to think that universities, or all places, can’t reform themselves. Maybe we need charter universities. Could you imagine the hue and cry if Minnesota would charter a new university that was charged with being innovative?
As an intermediate step, perhaps BlueSky could partner with a post secondary institution and strongly encourage our 11th and 12th graders to do PSEO there, with the understanding that the postsecondary institution would have to work with us on innovative new curriculum and teaching practices.

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