What specific roles could the federal government play in encouraging innovation in the education system?
We have these large, institutionalized systems that have been doing business premised on the way they did business 50 years ago—in many cases, 100 or more years ago. The district infrastructures look the same. What we’ve done is add layer upon layer of new rules, regulations, and information technology systems, without ever reinventing the old. It’s much like somebody who’s trying to build a new, shiny, eco-friendly skyscraper before clearing away the rubble of the tenement building that has long stood in the same location. Innovation is an opportunity for people to come in without any of these accumulated routines—to start fresh, taking advantage of the labor force that exists today and new patterns of behavior and new tools of communication and technology to solve problems. But the reality is, up and down school districts and states and the education system, it is very difficult for educators or providers from outside the schools who are trying to solve particular problems to get the
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