All Episodes

8/28 What is "Capacity"? (II) As Applied to Public Schools

8/21: What is "Capacity"? (I)

8/13: The Federal Education Policy Issue The Presidential Candidates Don't Discuss (III)

8/6: The Federal Education Policy Issue The Presidential Candidates Don't Discuss (Between II and III)

7/30: The Federal Education Policy Issue The Presidential Candidates Don't Discuss (II)

7/24: The Federal Education Policy Issue The Presidential Candidates Don't Discuss (I)

7/17: "In short, I see no problem with research INITIALLY becoming public with little or no review."

7/16: "In short, I see no problem with research becoming public with little or no review." (Between I and II)

7/10: "In short, I see no problem with research becoming public with little or no review." (I)

7/3: Is There A School Improvement Industry?

6/26: The School Improvement Industry's Demand Side for SYs 2009 and 2010

6/19: Funding NCLB

6/11: Lobbying Should Be Marketing's Responsibility

6/4: Philanthropy's Role in K-12 Program Evaluation

5/28 Why Teachers Are Not Legally Recognized Professionals, But Should Be

5/22: Franchising for Charter School Scale

5/15: A Detailed Statutory Analysis of "based on" in Reading First (I)

5/8: Reading First Interim Report Doesn't Pass the "So What? Test?

4/30: Why Can't We All Just Get Along?

Special: Kudos to the Education Industry Association

4/23: Information Systems, Accountability and Adaptive Management

4/16: On Teacher Accountability

4/9: My Market Exemplars

4/2: Critic or Critical Friend?

3/26: Getting SES Providers Past the Tough Times Ahead

3/20: Why the Tough Times Ahead for SES Providers?

3/12: After Scientifically Based Research, Response to Intervention?

3/5: SBR is Really RB, and RB is Really SBR: Do You Want Me to Apply SBR to Your Program?

Special Series on Social Entrepreneurship (VI): Summing Up

Special Series on Social Entrepreneurship (V): 1996 - Nonprofit Entrepreneurship Reaches a Critical Mass in Public Education

Special Series on Social Entrepreneurship (IV): 1996 - Entrepreneurship Reaches a Critical Mass in Public Education

Special Series on Social Entrepreneurship (III): BSE (Before Social Entrepreneurship)

Special Series on Social Entrepreneurship (II): First, Define "Entrepreneur"

Special Series on Social Entrepreneurship (I): Introduction

Think Tank Special (3): We Need a Better Class of Customer

Think Tank Special (2): Real Think Tanks Work for an Agency That Pays Their Bills

Think Tank Special: Uberblogger Alexander Russo asks: What is the role, impact or benefit of education think tanks?

2/5: Management Consulting Firms are the New Education "Think Tanks"

1/30: Where Provider Accountability Went Wrong

1/23: Provider Accountability is Arbitrary and Capricious

1/16: What Is Accountability In the Public Education Market?

1/8: Why Market-Based Reforms Don't

1/2: Three "E's" In The School Improvement Industry's Year Ahead

12/26: Staying In With The Outs

12/19: School Improvement Industry Fragmentation (III)

12/12: School Improvement Industry Fragmentation (II)

12/5: School Improvement Industry Fragmentation (I)

11/27: What I Learned at the Signal Hill Education Preview Investor Conference

11/21: What's a CODiE and How do I Get One (And What Does It Tell Buyers)?

11/14: What the Industry Can Learn From American Gangster

11/6: What to Do With a Two Year Reprieve of NCLB II

10/30: S. 2117 Incentivizes the Development of a School Improvement Industry

10/23: Real School Improvement Providers Back S. 2118

10/16: School Improvement Marketers Take Note - All Education Reporting is Political

10/9: Can One Hate the Central Office, Yet Love the CMO?

10/2: Miller McKeon Discussion Draft Hijacks Comprehensive School Reform

9/25: Why Bar For-Profits From Title I School Improvement?

9/18: "Apres W, Le Deluge" - Party Factionalism on the Federal Role in Public Education

9/11: NCLB Discussion Draft and The Gang of Forty-Four

9/4 (2): News About School Improvement Industry - The Business

9/4: Federal Law Makes the School Improvement Market

8/29: The School Improvement Industry and Teacher Professionalism

8/22: The 2008 Election - Deja Vu?

8/14: A Return to Costing NCLB

8/8: The Dialectic (Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis) of School Reform Politics

7/31: NCLB II Will Be Less Favorable to the School Improvement Industry Than NCLB I

7/24: Four Factors Shaping the School Improvement Market

7/17: Vacation Memo for the CEO - Grant RFPs vs. Equity Investment Presentations

7/10: Cost-Effectiveness Comes to School Improvement - Are You Ready?

7/3: Our Industry's Interests in NCLB II: (X) An Industrial Policy for School Improvement

6/26: Our Industry's Interests in NCLB II: (IX) A New Industrial Policy for K-12

6/19: Political Power and the Adoption of Education Technology

6/12:Our Industry's Interest in NCLB II: (VIII) Six Options for the SES Provisions

6/5: Our Industry's Interest in NCLB II: (VII) What Was Expected of Supplemental Educational Services in NCLB I?

5/29: What's Good About Our industry

5/22: Notice to Mariners: Logs, Charts and Navigators for the Industry's "Evaluation Shoals"

5/15: The School Improvement Industry's "Evaluation Shoals"

5/1: Our Industry's Interests in NCLB II: (VI)

4/24: Reading First Offers Investors A Rare Political Opportunity

4/17: Industry Interests in NCLB II (V)

4/12: One Education Industry, or Two?

4/10: Industry Interests in NCLB II (IV)

4/3: Industry Interests in NCLB II (III)

3/27: Industry Interests in NCLB II (II)

3/20: Industry Interests in NCLB II (I)

3/13: The School Improvement Industry's Interests in the Next NCLB (II)

3/6: The School Improvement Industry's Interests in the Next NCLB (I)

2/27: What Has Become of the Charter Idea? (VII)

2/20: What Has Become of The Charter Idea? (VI)

2/13: What Has Become of the Charter Idea? (V)

2/6: What Has Become of the Charter Idea? (IV)

1/30 What Has Become of the Charter Idea? (III)

1/23: What Has Become of the Charter Idea? (II)

1/16: What Has Become of the Charter Idea? (I)

1/9: New Year's Resolutions

1/2: Parsing the Qualified Lead (IV)

12/26: Open Source Market Research 101 (III)

12/19: Open Source Market Research 101 (II)

12/12: Open Source Market Research 101

12/5: Towards an Asymmetric Marketing Strategy (III)

11/28: Towards an Asymmetric Marketing Strategy (II)

11/21: Towards an Asymmetric Marketing Strategy (I)

11/14: Expect Democrat Assault on Industry's Keystone - AYP

11/7: Marketing Managers are a Neglected Strategic Asset

10/31: Educators as Informed Consumers - Part V of V

10/24: Reading First: Management Mess is Worse Than One Messed-Up Manager

10/17: Educators as Informed Consumers - Part IV of V

10/10: Two Editorials on Reading First: Our Latest and Our First

10/3: Educators as Informed Consumers - Part III of IV

9/26: Two Editorials - Educators as Informed Consumers (II) and The Reading First Scandal

9/19: Educators as Informed Consumers - Part I of IV

9/12: Expanded Web-Based Service Offerings - Free and Fee

9/5: Encore Editorial - It's a Relationships Business

8/29: Encore Editorial - About That "Gold Standard" (did it happen?)

8/22: Encore Editorial - Political Risk in 2004 (not much has changed since)

8/15: Encore Editorial - Moving the Industry to the Center

8/7: Will Trade Groups Support the School Improvement Industry?

8/1: AYP and SBR Bound School Improvement Providers' Market Potential

7/25: An Industry Balkanized by Seven Trade Groups

7/18: Measuring Your Trade Group's Value

7/11: Reconsidering Federal Funding for K-12 R&D

7/4: Coping With The New Philanthropy

6/27: Philanthropy, The "New Philanthropy" and The Industry

6/20: Entrepreneurial Firms or Textbook Publishers?

6/12: Do Pearson's Purchases Signal the End of Our Industry's Entrepreneurial Era?

6/6: Why School District Size Matters to School Improvement Providers

5/30: Becoming Part of Federal Policymaking for k-12

5/23: Q1 Earnings Reports Explain Industry Risks

5/16: Valuing Teachers as Industry Partners (II)

5/9: Valuing Teachers as Industry Partners (I)

5/3: NCLB as America's Perestroika for K-12 Education

4/25: An American Perestroika for Education Reform?

4/18: Know When to Walk Away, Know when to Run

4/11: Thinking About ThinkTanks

4/4: The Worst Injuries are Self-Inflicted

3/28: In Defense of EMO White Hat

3/21: To the NCLB Commission - Consider the Role of Supply in Leaving No Child Behind

3/14: A New District Cost Structure

3/7 SIIW The Podcast: Understand the District Cost Structure Before Changing It

2/28 SIIW The Podcast: Money Talks, Nobody Walks

2/21 SIIW The Podcast: Defending Our Entrepeneurs from the Presumption of Ill Intent

2/14 SIIW The Podcast: Charter Schools are not a Product

2/7 SIIW The Podcast: Another Look at Edison's RAND Study

1/31 SIIW The Podcast: Modern Markets and The School Improvement Industry - Don't Write Off Competition Yet

1/16 SIIW The Podcast: Reducing Political Risk

1/9 SIIW The Podcast: A Campaign to Reduce Political Risk

1/2 SIIW The Podcast: SBR's Gold Standard

12/26 SIIW The Podcast: Our Very First Letter From The Editor (1/12/04)

12/19 SIIW The Podcast: RFP Report Services

12/12 SIIW The Podcast

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