{"id":1577,"date":"2009-08-09T13:33:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T13:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discovery.org\/tech\/2009\/08\/09\/real_education_reform\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T21:56:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T21:56:50","slug":"real_education_reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/2009\/08\/09\/real_education_reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Real education reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>New York Times<\/i> has an excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/09\/education\/09textbook.html?_r=1&amp;em\">report<\/a> on the promise of digital education:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t believe that charters and vouchers are the threat to schools in Orange County,&#8221; [Superintendent  William M. Habermehl] said. &#8220;What&#8217;s a threat is the digital world &#8212; that someone&#8217;s going to put together brilliant $200 courses in French, in geometry by the best teachers in the world.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The economics of digital courses will be so compelling that no vested interest will be able to stop it.<br \/>\nIf each course is approximately $200, students can sign up for 10 digital courses for approximately $2,000 plus the cost of a computer and a broadband connection versus &#8212; in the case of the D.C. public schools, for example &#8212; somewhere <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/04\/04\/AR2008040402921.html\">between $8,322 and $25,000<\/a> that was reportedly spent on each pupil last year.<br \/>\nPlus, entrepreneurial educators can cater to a wide variety of individual interests and learning abilities and make a good living doing it.<br \/>\nImagine being able to study economics in high school with someone like Milton Friedman (or Paul Krugman, if you prefer) or creative writing with the likes of J.K. Rowling.<br \/>\nSo maybe instead of advocating charters and vouchers, educational reformers ought to emphasize credits for digital courses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has an excellent report on the promise of digital education: &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe that charters and vouchers are the threat to schools in Orange County,&#8221; [Superintendent William M. Habermehl] said. &#8220;What&#8217;s a threat is the digital world &#8212; that someone&#8217;s going to put together brilliant $200 courses in French, in geometry by the best teachers in the world.&#8221; The economics of digital courses will be so compelling that no vested interest will be able to stop it. If each course is approximately $200, students can sign up for 10 digital courses for approximately $2,000 plus the cost of a computer and a broadband connection versus &#8212; in the case of the D.C. public schools, for example<a class=\"ellipsis article-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/2009\/08\/09\/real_education_reform\/\"><span> Read More &rsaquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"coauthors":[112],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-learning"],"acf":[],"author_names":["Hance Haney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1577"}],"wp:action-assign-author":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}