Category: education
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Like ghost kitchens that exist only on delivery apps, these nonprofits exist only on college applications.
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This essay first appeared in my newsletter. Sign up here if interested in F’ing up the status quo and fixing education. In the grand theater of American higher education, few performances are as anticipated—or as controversial—as the annual unveiling of the U.S. News & World Report college rankings. Like a high-stakes beauty pageant for academia,…
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This essay first appeared in my newsletter. Sign up here if interested in F’ing up the status quo and fixing education. Here’s a puzzle: how do you create a trillion-dollar debt bubble that can’t be popped? Answer: make student loans non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. Now, here’s a trickier one: how do you fix this mess when…
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Instead of making our kids numerate and literate, they appease us with bread and circuses. It’s a trick as old as the Roman Empire.
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As we look for a home for The School of Entrepreneuring, one area we’re analyzing is universities and colleges that are closing or ideally which may be on the precipice of closing. Per the Hechinger Report, colleges and universities are closing at the rate of 1 per week right now which is an acceleration from…
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I watched the documentary In Search of Greatness which features elite athletes like Wayne Gretzky and Jerry Rice tonight. It’s a quick watch and interesting. Below are my notes/favorite ideas:
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Imagine a school where the number of books checked out from the library is used to judge the school’s literacy efforts. Absurd, right? Yet this mirrors the reality in many American government schools today (note: my focus is on public, government-funded middle and high schools). A conversation with a brilliant public school teacher recently illuminated…
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As we build out The School of Entrepreneuring, we’ve been thinking about what types of businesses students in middle or high school can start and even scale. Our criteria were simple. Find business ideas that meet students where they tend to be aka: With that in mind, here is our list of business ideas for…
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As we build The School of Entrepeneuring, we’ve realized that the fundamental challenge in education today isn’t about content or delivery. It’s about the problems we ask students to solve. The problems aren’t just dull but dangerously irrelevant. The result, as expected, is that we’re boring kids to death helping them hone obsolete skills while…
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I’m going to start this essay with an ask. Please invest 5:57 watching the video below. It’s from 1966. In it, the BBC asked kids what life would be like in 2000. It’s worth it for their responses (and their dope British accents). I’ll see you below after you’ve watched. What struck you? I was…
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The way we teach in our schools has been putting kids to sleep for 1000 years. Peer instruction is a teaching method pioneered by Harvard professor Dr Eric Mazur. It is criminally under appreciated.
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As we build The School of Entrepreneuring, we are always looking to learn from innovative schools (like this one). I stumbled upon another one recently which I had to highlight. In the video below, Guido Sarducci breaks down his idea for The 5 Minute University where you’d get a diploma for $20. In just 5…
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As I research the most effective instructional approaches are for The School of Entrepreneuring, I’ve been amazed (maybe dismayed is a better word) by how much jargon, confusion and overlap there is among these philosophies. As I talk to teachers, administrators, school founders, etc, one will tell me about the great success they’re having with…