I don't know if it will work, but it's interesting.
Inside the School Silicon Valley Thinks Will Save Educationby ISSIE LAPOWSKY
Wired Magazine
May 4, 2015
And so, if you are truly fed up with the school status quo and have $20,875 to spare (its pricey, sure, but cheaper than the other private schools youve seen), you might decide to take a chance and sign your 7-year-old up for this little experiment in education called AltSchool. Except its not really so little anymore. And its about to get a lot bigger.
Founded in 2013 by former Google head of personalization Max Ventilla, AltSchool has poached high level executives from Google and Uber. Its got usersin this case, parentsapplying by the thousands. Its actually making money. And as of today, Mark Zuckerberg just became one of its largest investors.
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Schools today, Ventilla says, cater to the lowest common denominator, teaching to the middle instead of to each individual child. He refers to this problem as the tyranny of majority and says its a pervasive issue in schools thats as worrisome as it is understandable. If I asked you to go teach twenty 9-year olds, some who dont want to be in that classroom, and all of whom have very different interests and needs, fluctuating throughout the day, youd probably also reinvent this factory model we use in education, he says. Youd break the day up into 45-minute segments. Youd move the kids along, and if anyone is disruptive, youd admonish them, or if theyre zoned out and bored, youd move on and wait until the buzzer goes off each period.
