Innovation Rhetoric V. Innovation Reality

My School of Thought column at TIME this week takes a look at the larger implications behind Joel Rose’s departure from the New York City Department of Education at the end of the month. Rose founded “School of One” there.

Lately you can’t turn around in education without bumping into someone talking about innovation. The President is asking Congress for more federal support for educational innovation in this year’s budget, more and more school districts are naming “innovation officers,” and just last week a group of Silicon Valley start-up veterans launched a new incubator for innovative education companies. But while innovation is a catchy buzzword, on the ground conditions are often anything but innovative. This week, the resignation of a school administrator in New York City who most readers have probably never heard of vividly illustrates that disconnect.

Read the entire thing here.

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