Michael Horn, director of the Christensen Institute, explains that while many charter schools have succeeded in helping students, they have done so with an educational model that differs only at the margins from traditional schools. Only now, and only in small numbers, he writes, are charters beginning to experiment with blended learning, an innovative way to deliver instruction more efficiently and effectively, in part through technology.
Tech-Based Learning: The New Frontier for Charters?
by Michael Horn
When charter schools were created in the 1990s, they were intended to spur innovation in America’s K–12 school system. Charters, it was...