Posted on 06/06/2017 6:10:53 AM PDT by C19fan
In San Francisco’s public schools, Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, is giving middle school principals $100,000 “innovation grants” and encouraging them to behave more like start-up founders and less like bureaucrats.
In Maryland, Texas, Virginia and other states, Netflix’s chief, Reed Hastings, is championing a popular math-teaching program where Netflix-like algorithms determine which lessons students see.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
No doubt with some indoctrination tucked in here and there.
THE MORE PUBLIC SCHOOLS USE ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTERS,
THE LESS THEY ARE NEEDED.
THE LEFT IS TRULY PUBLIC SCHOOL "EDUCATED" AND NOT VERY BRIGHT.
SHUT THEM ALL DOWN !
Clowns don’t even mention PowerSchool - around which everything will revolve.
Didn’t read the article. I’ll guess that all of the problems in education are caused by “Lack of Funding”.
His software improves sales performance.
Can you elaborate?? Never heard of Powerschool. Have heard of "Khan Academy". Similar?? Different?? I largely agree that with computer technology, the need for much classroom instruction pretty much disappears, and can be tailored for different learning styles and speeds.
I think centralized schools will devolve into sites teaching "hands on" experience (music, shop, science labs, and similar, perhaps along "Makerlab" lines, maybe becoming "neighborhood Makerlabs" allowing both kids AND adults access).
“...around which everything will revolve.”
Maybe not:
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2015-02-27-pearson-exploring-options-to-sell-powerschool-sis-business
PowerSchool went private a couple years back. Started private, got bought by Apple, who sold it to Pearson, who also found out they didn’t want to bother with the complexities of the K12 market.
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