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The Cockpits of our Economy

Bailey Takacs
November 27, 2019
In 1952, the United States Air Force came to a realization. Even though good pilots were flying even better fighter jets, they could not figure out why split second decisions were lagging. Pilots were blamed, the technology was blamed, and flight instructors were blamed. The source of the problem though, was the cockpit. They found that that every cockpit was built for the “average” pilot, yet when each pilot was measured, there was no such thing as an average sized pilot.   Director of Harvard’s Mind, Brain, and Education program, Todd Rose, likens the state of our education system to that of United States Air Force fighter pilots. In his 2013 speech for TEDx “The Myth of the Average”, he noted, “If every pilot has a jagged size profile and you design a cockpit …

We Will Tell You How to be Innovative

Bailey Takacs
November 21, 2019

Needle in a Haystack: School Innovation

Bailey Takacs
November 19, 2019

Innovative Leadership: An Emptiness In Public Education

Bailey Takacs
November 12, 2019

Why Only One Type of School?

Bailey Takacs
November 7, 2019

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