EE's Curt Johnson appeared on TPT's Redesigning MN: Educating the Workforce series, challenging us to embrace the relentless forces inevitably changing higher ed.
Once considered marginal, online higher education has almost suddenly burst into the market as a major disruptive force. Every college will soon have to answer this question: what is it that we offer that students need to be on campus to get?
We at Education Evolving try to spend most of our time looking forward. But as this year comes to an end, we want to take a moment to look back on our work in 2012.
As more than a million baby boomers retire in Minnesota, what impact will this have on government budgets? On education? EEs Curt Johnson joins other panelists in a televised conversation about redesigning education during this enormous shift in demographics.
Zero Chance of Passage, Ember Reichgott Junge’s new book, is an uplifting account of the passage of the nation’s first charter school law; and how the Minneapolis teacher's union changed opinion, and came to view chartering laws as an opportunity for teachers to gain autonomy and participate in the creation of chartered schools.
Recent Star Tribune article features E|E's associates Bob Wedl, Kim Farris-Berg and MN's first self-governed, ground breaking school. “If I were a taxpayer, I would want all schools to be self-governed," said Tina Maynor, governing council, Pierre Bottineau French Immersion School.
A new report examines two innovative chartered schools in Minnesota which have expanded definitions of achievement and improved student outcomes -- all without increased costs.
