[Edu-sig] Microsoft's KPL

[Kirby Urner]

> In a message of Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:52:09 PDT, "Kirby Urner" writes:
> <snip>

> >In education, being a really small company is what's ultra cool.  Because
> >your students think they might want to be private, independent
> entrepreneurs
> >like you someday.
> 
> This might be a better model for a general education -- instead of
> training people to be factory workers, we might try training them
> to be small business owners and entrepreneurs.  It would certainly
> be an interesting way to build a curriculum.
> 
> Laura

Yes.  Here in Portland we have a new charter school working through the
bureaucracy, trying to set up on just this model:  a high school that turns
out entrepreneurs, ready for college, but also ready to go into business
(maybe in part to pay for college).  Koreducators.org is the org behind it.
I testified at the hearing, have been invited to do so again.

Kirby