By Kerry McDonald The rise of bottom-up education models Across the US, everyday education entrepreneurs are reimagining K-12 education in simple but profound ways. Some of these entrepreneurs are parents trying to solve an educational problem for their own families who decide to bring others along with them. Others are teachers who became fed up with one-size-fits-all … [Read more...] about Education Entrepreneurship and Innovation Across the US: A Case Study
Innovation
For Now, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Still Holds a High Place in the USA
By Lipton Matthews Commentators worry that the United States might lose its dominance in innovation to Asian countries like China and Singapore. Many policymakers are intimidated by the R&D budgets of Asian countries and by their superior performance on international academic assessments. However, these concerns are misguided because the United States still dominates … [Read more...] about For Now, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Still Holds a High Place in the USA
Are Innovative K-12 Education Models Coming To Your Community? It Depends On Where You Live
By Kerry McDonald Chris Turner is inventing an entirely new category of education. It’s not school and it’s not homeschool, and it doesn’t fit neatly into existing regulatory frameworks. Turner’s startup, Moonrise.com, is truly an out-of-the-box learning model that too often gets boxed in, preventing its ability to launch or grow in certain US states. Turner decided to … [Read more...] about Are Innovative K-12 Education Models Coming To Your Community? It Depends On Where You Live
How Disruptive Innovation Is Accelerating the Growth of Alternative Learning Models
By Kerry McDonald Disruptive innovation usually begins on the margins, with a few, intrepid users embracing a new product or service. Abetted by new technologies, a disruptive innovation penetrates the mainstream when its quality is proven to be as good, if not better, than more established models. According to author and investor, Michael Horn, a classic example of … [Read more...] about How Disruptive Innovation Is Accelerating the Growth of Alternative Learning Models
Entrepreneurship Is Accelerating at the Fastest Rate in Decades During This Pandemic
By Kerry McDonald As officials in many areas impose new pandemic lockdowns and restrictions going into the holiday season, things can seem bleak. Depression rates are up, people are fleeing cities in droves, elected leaders regularly violate their own orders, and fraud is rampant in the government’s COVID-19 stimulus programs. It’s understandable to feel frustration and … [Read more...] about Entrepreneurship Is Accelerating at the Fastest Rate in Decades During This Pandemic
3 Ways to Grow and Feel More Secure During This Time of Uncertainty
By Brooke Medina Beyond keeping up with the latest IHME model and rising unemployment numbers, how can we spend these days that seem to drone on, one obscurely melding into the next? Unless you’re incredibly popular and find yourself attending more than several Zoom happy hours a week, chances are that you have some extra, government-mandated margin in your life. And during … [Read more...] about 3 Ways to Grow and Feel More Secure During This Time of Uncertainty
City Schoolhouse: The Innovative School That’s Helping Low-Income Families Educate Their Children
By Kerry McDonald When her daughter began kindergarten in the public elementary school to which she had been assigned in Louisville, Kentucky, Emily Duke quickly realized it was not a good fit. The environment was very stressful for the five year old, whose parents had recently divorced. The rigidity and top-down instructional methods, combined with her emotional turmoil … [Read more...] about City Schoolhouse: The Innovative School That’s Helping Low-Income Families Educate Their Children
New Mobile Game Revolutionizes Storytelling by Challenging Authority
By John Vibes Mobile devices have become one of the most popular ways to play games in recent years because of how accessible they are to so many people. Lots of mobile content has very fun gameplay, along with good design and graphics, but thought-provoking stories can be hard to come by. Over the past year, I have been working with a team of writers and developers to … [Read more...] about New Mobile Game Revolutionizes Storytelling by Challenging Authority
Construction On World’s First 3D-Printed Community Begins In Mexico
By John Vibes The world’s first 3D-printed community is currently being built in rural Mexico. Construction began last week, and two houses have been built so far, but the developers hope to complete 50 new 3D-printed houses in the area by 2020. The village is in a very rural, low-income area of Tabasco, Mexico, where earthquakes and flooding are both extremely common. … [Read more...] about Construction On World’s First 3D-Printed Community Begins In Mexico
9 of the 10 Richest People in the World Are Self-Made Entrepreneurs
By Jon Miltimore Every year Forbes publishes its list of the 400 wealthiest Americans. Topping the list in 2019 for the second year in a row was, to no one’s surprise, Jeff Bezos. The Amazon founder kept the top spot despite a divorce that sent his net worth tumbling from $160 billion to $114 billion. Worldwide, Americans represent a sizable portion of the wealthiest … [Read more...] about 9 of the 10 Richest People in the World Are Self-Made Entrepreneurs
How Entrepreneurs Learn from the Marketplace
By Raushan Gross Ludwig von Mises wrote that “we are historians of the future.”1 But, the heterogeneity in knowledge makes it virtually impossible to know everything there about historic market trends, or even about local economies.This is why F.A. Hayek emphasized there is no such thing as perfect knowledge among individuals at any given time. Everything is constantly … [Read more...] about How Entrepreneurs Learn from the Marketplace
“Smart Manufacturing:” AI And 3D Printing Allows Chinese Car Startup To Bypass Trump’s Tariffs
By Tyler Durden Pix Moving, a Chinese automobile startup using artificial intelligence (A.I.) to design vehicles and convert the blueprints into instructions for 3D printers, isn't afraid of President Trump's trade war and has utilized technology to bypass tariffs, reported Nikkei Asian Review. Angelo Yu, the founder of Pix Moving, has outsmarted the most powerful country … [Read more...] about “Smart Manufacturing:” AI And 3D Printing Allows Chinese Car Startup To Bypass Trump’s Tariffs