Website is up.

The Idea School website is up. Check it out here http://www.theideaschool.org

NY Times article. Colleges are "Failure Factories"

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/business/economy/09leonhardt.html

An excerpt:

...Yes, inadequate precollege education is a problem. But high schools still produce many students who have the skills to complete college and yet fail to do so. Turning them into college graduates should be a lot less difficult than fixing all of American education.
“We could be doing a lot better with college completion just by working on our colleges,” as Robert Shireman, an Education Department official who has read an early version of the book, says....
- David Leonhardt, New York Times

The Hunt is On!

We have two great facilitators at the moment, though we are looking for 1-3 more outstanding teachers that possess these qualities:

• Loves ideas
• Encouraging and communicates well
• Loves written works by the likes of Seth Godin, Daniel Pink, and Jim Collins.
• Has a lot of experience teaching entrepreneurship and business principles
• Loves autonomy over tasks and is inspired by the idea of designing his/her own curriculum
• Loves to personally invest themselves in the progress of their students
• Loves to have fun

Lots o' love, it turns out, is a good qualification for a teacher to have. If you feel you're qualified please contact Ryan Chatterton at rchatterton@theideaschool.org with your CV attached and introduce yourself.

Onward and upward!

Elevator Pitch: Idea School.

Idea School helps students generate ideas.

It helps them refine ideas.

It helps them implement ideas.

It connects them with resources they didn't know about.

It eases and supports the ideation and building process.

For the student, yes, but ultimately for the idea itself.

Because the world we live in thrives on new ideas.