Jonathan Knee, "Class Clowns"
January 13, 2017
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as posted by the channelIn his third book, Knee, a professor at Columbia Business School and author of The Accidental Investment Banker, analyzes the problematic relationship between business and education reform. He details four projects that had good shots at success, but that failed: Rupert Murdoch’s billion-dollar push to reshape elementary education through technology, Michael Milken’s twenty-year effort with Knowledge Universe, Chris Whittle’s EdisonLearning, and Houghton Mifflin’s textbook initiative. Comparing these disappointments with the rarer successes, Knee distills a dozen guidelines to help investors, teachers, and activists succeed in future efforts.
Knee is in conversation with Katherine Bradley, founding chair of the CityBridge Education board.
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