Disrupting Class, Expanded Edition: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns (Hardcover)

from Merryann

This was a fine, thought-provoking book, less on what ought to be done to improve education in America and more on what is going to happen to improve it. Published in 2008, it's already been long enough to see that some things the authors predicted to happen by now have not. But...it's also been ...

from jenn_stringer

I read the book expecting more based on the reviews. It makes very good points about customizing instruction based on student needs and the need to "disrupt" the current system. Maybe it is just me, but I didn't read anything that profound. Most of what they said about any educator in the classro...

from DollyBaker

Many of the trends were difficult for me to accept. After taking a step back and removing the personal issue, I found the book to be truthful and it lead me to rethink many of my personal opinions.

from dmcolon

Most of us in education are pretty resistant to having people in the business world tell us how to do things. I'm not taking sides on this one, but it's a professional bias. I've learned that the business world actually does have some things we in education could learn. Since everyone went to sch...

from scoffee

An important work. Theoretical treatment of the current state of education and the way forward, viewed through the lens of his academic theories regarding disruptive innovation.