Disrupting education

Here are a couple of references to new ideas in education. The first is a policy paper from the Brookings Institution on
Changing the Game: The Federal Role in Supporting 21st Century Educational Innovation:

To resolve dramatic disparities in educational achievement and ensure future American workers are globally competitive, the federal government needs, as it has in the past, to change the game in public education.

A robust new federal Office of Educational Entrepreneurship and Innovation within the Department of Education would expand the boundaries of public education by scaling up successful educational entrepreneurs, seeding transformative educational innovations, and building a stronger culture to support these activities throughout the public sector.

The second is a slide show in Business Week on Disruptive Education Technology: Helping Kids Learn:

A growing number of education technologies, many of them distributed over the Web, are upending traditional approaches to education.

New approaches should certainly be welcome in the I-Cubed Economy.