Clayton Christensen presents 'Disrupting Class' to Education Commission of the States, 2009
Christensen says: "Improvement requires states to make room for disruptive Innovation in public education
by Education|Evolving
In July 2009, governors, legislators, and other state and local
leaders interested in issues of state policy making in education
gathered at the ECS National Forum on Education Policy. Clayton
Christensen, Harvard Business Professor and author of Disrupting
Class, told them: States have not managed well the evolution of the
business model for public education. As a result, public education
is expensive and is not necessarily meeting the needs of the
people.
But improvement is possible if states make room for innovations in
education, and do not let ideas that better meet the needs of the
market get killed or co-opted because they don't meet the needs of
the existing model.
