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Thursday, June 17, 2010

School Tech Connect: Thank You, David Warlick

School Tech Connect: Thank You, David Warlick

Thank You, David Warlick

David Warlick has done the country a favor by writing a mass howdy-do to Yong Zhao, a distinguished scholar from Michigan State, where I am also affiliated (by virtue of the fact that my favorite sweatshirt says "Michigan State" on it, and I've driven through Michigan many, many times.)



Professor Zhao has written a great piece about a local-based, entrepreneurial-in-spirit program in the UK, and how it's produced great results in lowering C02 emissions. He says the same kind of policy here, applied to education, would be a much wiser investment than the Race to the Flop, which I believe @DianeRav was madly tweeting about last night from New York. There isn't a single thing in the UK program that wouldn't appeal to people on both sides of America's political continuum. It's like "A Thousand Points of Light," except it's an actua