Publications

Windows on the Next Generation of Charter Schools and Chartering

Speech • May 2004

A look at the next generation of chartered schools and the environment in which they live. We will need to diversify charter authorizers, document the progress of existing chartered schools, find ways to finance facilities and transportation, and find new ways to organize extra-curricular activities.

We Cannot Get the Schools We Need by Changing the Schools We Have

Speech • May 2004

While almost everyone wants schools to be better, almost nobody wants them to be different. And, we overestimate the ability of leadership to change organizations in more than incremental ways. The internal culture heavily constrains change. A speech by Joe Graba at a national meeting of foundations.

Will More Money Alone Produce Better Results?

Article • February 2003

Many American tax payers seem willing to raise their taxes to further fund public education. While lack of funding is often viewed as being at the root of our failing education system, raises in per-pupil spending have shown to be less influential than we'd like to believe. Might there be another answer to fixing schools?

Who Should Adapt: Students to School or School to Students?

Article • July 1996

Education policy is dominated by people who themselves did well in school. As a result, they believe conventional school must be OK and that students should adjust to it. Students give a different view. But nobody much listens to them, or thinks the job of educators and policy makers is to adapt school to the students.

Key Ideas from Innovation-Based Systemic Reform Paper

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Where National Education Policy Goes Next – To Succeed

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Clayton Christensen on Education|Evolving’s Influence

Clayton Christensen on Education|Evolving’s influence on his own thinking about K-12 Education* “Managing innovation successfully has been the primary focus of my research and writing at Harvard. I’m a teacher, the husband and son of teachers, but I’m not an “expert” in education. I’ve practiced it sure, but until we began writing this book, I […]

Disrupting Class – Experts Are Saying

What leading educators and education policy leaders are saying about Disrupting Class. “A brilliant teacher, Christensen brings clarity to a muddled and chaotic world of education. JIM COLLINS, best selling author of Good to Great “After a barrage of business books that purport to ‘fix’ American education, at last a book that speaks thoughtfully and […]

Disrupting Class – In The News

Awards and recognitions Amazon.com’s #1 bestseller in “education policy reform” for most of 2009 “Fifty Books of Our Times” by Newsweek magazine “10 Best Books on Innovation, 2008” by Business Week magazine. “Best Human-Capital Book of 2008” by Strategy + Business magazine “Ten Books that Drive the Debate 2009″ by National Chamber Foundation News reports […]

Dominique’s “Night at the Video Store” Film

W.E.B. Du Bois, a chartered small high school in Milwaukee, WI, has a communication and technology focus to engage students’ interests and develop 21st century skills. The school employs an integrated and project-based curriculum to teach the use of various media including television and radio broadcasting, digital video and editing, digital photography, desktop publishing, and […]

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