Jeanne Allen: The Yass Prize's Pursuit of Transformational and Permissionless Education
Jeanne Allen joins the Students Over Systems podcast to discuss the creation and impact of the Yass Prize and more.
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Jeanne Allen joins the Students Over Systems podcast to discuss the creation and impact of the Yass Prize and more.
Why is the education establishment scared of trying something new?
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(Archived document, may contain errors) A HerUl'age Foundation Conference How Business Can Save Education: A State Agenda For Reform P hiladelphia, Pennsylvania April 24, 1991 John Chubb SeniorFeuow Broolcings Institution Denis Doyle Senior Research FeRow Hudson Institute Eric Hanushek Professor of Economics and Political Science University of Rochester Herbert Walberg Professor of Education University of Illinois Introduction
An education gap between white students and their black and Hispanic peers is something to which most Americans have become accustomed. But this racial division of education—and hence of prospects for the future—is nothing less than tragic. The good news is that the racial divide in learning is a problem that can be fixed. Of course, it can only be fixed if education reform is approached in a commonsense and innovative way. Continuing to repeat the largely failed national policies and ever-increasing spending of the past decades is surely not common sense. One state, Florida, has demonstra...