Fast Company nails yet again on a profile of Microsoft's collaboration with Philly schools on a technology-driven school of the future. I'm not too editorially balanced to admit that education is my favorite of all Optimist topics even though Green usually takes center stage.
My favorite angle of the story is the idea that the companies who have funded free-form, technology-oriented programs that move secondary education beyond "batch processing" toward white collar career development (from pioneering Citigroup and American Express to Google, Boeing, Intel and Chevron) can't simply point to a percentage of pilot students who have become future employees...but that progams like the National Academy Foundation (funded by such companies) CAN point to dramatically higher graduation rates, college achievement and career stickiness.
We should probably just submit to doing a monthly recap of Fast Company's best stories per issue, as this month's issue also features a great story on one-time green whiz kid Adam Werbach's (former 23 year-old head of the Sierra Club) date-with-the-devil, his controversial paid consulting work with Wal-Mart's sustainability efforts.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Fast Company September: Microsoft in the Schools
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