Last night on Charlie Rose one of the guest was CHRIS WHITTLE. He is the entrepreneur slash educator who started the Edison Schools. He was there to sell his new book "Crash Course: Imagining a Better Future For Public Education"
His main thesis was that we are using a 19th century model for education. He wants us to think of new ways of running schools. One example he gave was hiring half as many teachers and paying them twice as much as they are now. He argued having the school day divided into 6 periods is a waste. He envisions students studying a few hours a day with higher paid and more talented and more motivated teachers and the rest of the day the students would run the school.
How about higher education? How would higher education reform itself?