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Totter, Andrew – Education Week, 2008
Technology-based forces of "disruptive innovation" are gathering around public education and will overhaul the way K-12 students learn--with potentially dramatic consequences for established public schools, according to an upcoming book that draws parallels to disruptions in other industries. In his "Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Innovation, Public Education, Charter Schools
Sandham, Jessica L. – Education Week, 1998
Describes the pros and cons of Alaska's unique Family Partnership Charter School, which oversees distribution of public funding to home-schooling families, offers support to help home-schooling parents meet district standards on their own terms, and monitors required purchase of teacher time and expenditures. A sidebar describes an Alaskan…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Charter Schools, Distance Education, Educational Administration