Competition in Education

Sep 15, 2008

Aspen Institute

Katherine Bradley moderated a session comparing the educational system to a private corporation. A team "pitched" education to Ted Mitchell, as if he were an venture capital investor. Topics included teacher accountability, using technology to provide new classroom experience options, and how to attract a higher talent level to the teaching and .. Read More
Katherine Bradley moderated a session comparing the educational system to a private corporation. A team "pitched" education to Ted Mitchell, as if he were an venture capital investor. Topics included teacher accountability, using technology to provide new classroom experience options, and how to attract a higher talent level to the teaching and principal pool. "Session Five: Investing in the Enterprise: Could Public Education Make the Grade as a Capital Venture?" was part of the Aspen Institute's National Education Summit, held at the Mayflower Hotel.

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00:00:05 Unidentified Speaker WE'LL TAKE YOU BACK LIVE NOW TO THE MAYFLOWER HOTEL IN WASHINGTON, D.C., AS THE ASPEN INSTITUTE SUMMIT...
00:00:27 Unidentified Speaker TODAY'S TASK WILL BE TO LOOK AT PUBLIC EDUCATION AS IF IT WERE A REAL ENTERPRISE THAT HAD TO MAKE...
00:03:41 Unidentified Speaker THANKS, KATHERINE. THANKS FOR HANGING IN THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. I THINK THAT THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT...
00:05:11 Unidentified Speaker WONDERFUL. THANK YOU TED. SO WE'LL TURN TO THE PANELISTS AND ASK EACH OF THEM TO GIVE OPENING STATEMENTS...
00:05:39 Unidentified Speaker SO I GUESS IF WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS AS A QUESTION OF WHETHER OR NOT YOU SHOULD INVEST, PROBABLY DCPS...
00:11:10 Unidentified Speaker WHY DON'T WE JUMP TO JASON.
00:11:12 Unidentified Speaker OKAY. SO BASICALLY WHAT I DO ALL DAY IS SEE HOW WE GET A HIGHLY EFFECTIVE AS OPPOSED TO HIGHLY QUALIFIED...
00:15:34 Unidentified Speaker OKAY. THANK YOU. JOHN, YOU ARE RECRUITING, TRAINING AND PRERE PLAGS PRINCIPALS IN NINE URBAN SCHOOL...
00:15:53 Unidentified Speaker I'M EXCITED TO TALK ABOUT WHAT WE'RE LEARNING AND DOING AT NEW LEADERS FOR NEW SCHOOLS. I THINK IT...
00:21:40 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. SO JOHN, WE'RE GIVING YOU A HEAVY WEIGHT TO CARRY THIS AFTERNOON BECAUSE WE'RE ASKING ...
00:22:00 Unidentified Speaker I'M GOING TO RECOMMEND TWO INVESTMENTS. ONE IS TEACHERS. THE OTHER IS TECHNOLOGY. FOR THE LAST 15...
00:29:10 Unidentified Speaker OKAY. THANK YOU. TED, COMMENTS, AND WE CAN MAKE THIS PART AS INTERACTIVE AS YOU'D LIKE. COMMENTS...
00:29:20 Unidentified Speaker HOPEFULLY, VERY INTERACTIVE, AND I WANT TO SECOND WHAT CATHERINE SAID AT THE BEGINNING. YOU GUYS ARE...
00:30:26 Unidentified Speaker SO I THINK YOU ALREADY ARE SEEING THE RESULTS OF WHAT WE'VE BEGUN TO DO. WE GOT OUR FIRST YEAR ACHIEVEMENT...
00:31:54 Unidentified Speaker I JUST HAVE THIS SORT OF SUBJECTIVE METRIC IN MY MIND WHEN I THINK ABOUT TEACHERS AND HUMAN CAPITAL...
00:32:19 Unidentified Speaker WHEN AM I GOING TO EXPECT THAT?
00:32:23 Unidentified Speaker I DEFER TO MY BOSS.
00:32:26 Unidentified Speaker WE TALK ABOUT SORT OF TWO FENTI TERMS. I THINK WITHIN EIGHT YEARS WE CAN SEE A MASSIVE, MASSIVE CHANGE....
00:32:33 Unidentified Speaker THAT'S A NEW METRIC IN THE INVESTMENT COMMUNITY. A FENTI TERM.
00:32:38 Unidentified Speaker BUT I THINK EVEN WITHIN FIVE YEARS YOU'LL SEE A VASTLY DIFFERENT SYSTEM THAN YOU DID WHEN WE WALKED...
00:32:51 Unidentified Speaker SO MARK, FIVE YEARS? . WE'VE TALKED A LOT FOR BOTH OF YOU. AND THEN I WANT TO TRANSITION TO JOHN. ...
00:33:28 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE SAW THROUGH THE SCHOOL CLOSING PROCESS,...
00:35:03 Unidentified Speaker JOHN CHUBB, STICKING WITH THE SAME ISSUE OF DEMAND, HEWLETT-PACKARD WAS KNOWN FOR ABOUT A DECADE AS...
00:36:02 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THERE'S A COUPLE OF THINGS GOING ON. ONE IS THE PHENOMENON THAT MICHELLE TALKED ABOUT, WHICH...
00:38:17 Unidentified Speaker JOHN. YOU SPOKE CLEARLY BUT BRIEFLY ABOUT SOCIAL ENTERPRISE BEING A PLACE WHERE INNOVATIVE EXPERIMENTS,...
00:39:07 Unidentified Speaker WE START, I THINK ALL OF US, OR THOSE OF US WHO ARE LOOKING AT THE FACTS IN EDUCATION TODAY, BY SEEING...
00:43:25 Unidentified Speaker LET ME FOLLOW UP ON THAT. SO WHEN A NEW LEADERS PRINCIPAL GOES INTO -- YOU'RE NOW DEVELOPING A TRACK...
00:44:23 Unidentified Speaker CLEARLY, BOTH ARE IMPORTANT. WHAT I WOULD SAY IS THAT IF YOU JUST RELY ON SCHOOL SYSTEM EFFORTS AND...
00:45:44 Unidentified Speaker TED, I KNOW WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT SYSTEMIC REFORMS IN A LITTLE BIT, SO I'LL JUST SAY A WORD ABOUT...
00:46:50 Unidentified Speaker TED, LET ME THROW OUT ONE QUESTION HERE, AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO THE SECOND PART. JOHN...
00:47:38 Unidentified Speaker IT'S KIND OF THE GOLDILOX PRINCIPLE. IT'S NOT THAT YOU WANT TO HAVE THEM TOO BIG OR TOO SMALL. YOU...
00:49:09 Unidentified Speaker DO YOU WANT TO LAYER ON WITH THAT?
00:49:12 Unidentified Speaker WHAT I WOULD ADD TO WHAT JOHN JUST SAID FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF SOMEONE WHO HERE IS REPRESENTING...
00:49:58 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THAT'S PART OF THE PROBLEM, THOUGH, IN PUBLIC EDUCATION, IS WE HAVE A LOT OF RESEARCH THAT...
00:51:23 Unidentified Speaker OKAY. AND LET'S MOVE ON ON OUR PANEL TOPIC TOO. SO PART TWO OF THIS IS REALLY TO LOOK AT THE LONGER...
00:52:31 Unidentified Speaker SO I HAVE A -- MAYBE A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW ON THIS FROM A LOT OF SUPERINTENDENTS. I THINK ONE...
00:53:49 Unidentified Speaker THAT'S GREAT. JON SCHNUR, HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT SYSTEMIC REFORMS YOU WISH YOU HAD SO THAT YOUR...
00:54:02 Unidentified Speaker WELL, THERE'S SYSTEMIC REFORMS AT THE NEW LEADERS ORGANIZATIONAL LEVEL THAT WE'RE FOCUSED ON, AND...
00:55:31 Unidentified Speaker AND JOHN CHUBB, YOUR ROLE AS A POLITICAL SCIENTIST AS WELL AS A FOR PROFIT PROVIDER.
00:55:35 Unidentified Speaker WELL, I THINK TO THE COUNTRY'S CREDIT OVER THE LAST GENERATION THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT STEPS TOWARDS...
00:57:31 Unidentified Speaker AND JASON, FROM YOUR MICROFOCUS ON THE HUMAN CAPITAL YOU'RE TRYING TO ATTRACT TO D.C., WHAT DO YOU...
00:57:42 Unidentified Speaker YOU KNOW, I THINK THE GREATER THE FOCUS ON QUALITY TALENT, THE BETTER OFF WE'RE GOING TO BE. I THINK...
00:58:33 Unidentified Speaker SO TED, A FEW REACTIONS, AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO SAVE THE LAST COUPLE MINUTES FOR ANY AUDIENCE QUESTIONS....
00:59:00 Unidentified Speaker A COUPLE QUESTIONS WE KEEP COMING BACK TO NOT ONLY IN THIS CONVERSATION BUT TODAY. AND ONE IS INNOVATION...
01:01:33 Unidentified Speaker GREAT. ALL RIGHT. DR. DAISY.
01:01:38 Unidentified Speaker SO LET'S START WITH THREE GENERAL QUESTIONS. THE FIRST ONE WOULD BE GIVEN THE WORK THAT YOU ARE ALL...
01:01:58 Unidentified Speaker AND TO WHOM SHOULD THAT QUESTION BE DIRECTED? WAS THERE A REQUEST?
01:02:02 Unidentified Speaker NO, THERE WASN'T A REQUEST.
01:02:09 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD POINT TO WHAT MICHELLE IS TRYING TO DO IN D.C. AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE KIND OF FLEXIBILITY YOU'RE...
01:03:07 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THERE ARE A FEW AREAS WHERE I THINK WE HAVE REAL EVIDENCE THAT MORE INVESTMENT IN POLICY CHANGE...
01:04:42 Unidentified Speaker WE UNFORTUNATELY ARE OUT OF TIME. TED, ANY FINAL CONCLUDE COMMENTS?
01:04:46 Unidentified Speaker I JUST WANT TO THANK OUR PANEL TODAY, KATHERINE, AND THANK YOU. PARTICULARLY THE PANEL FOR THEIR WORK...
01:04:57 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. YOU'RE ALL DOING AWESOME WORK. THANK YOU.
01:05:05 Unidentified Speaker LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, FOR SECURITY PURPOSES IT IS IMPORTANT TO REMAIN IN YOUR SEATS WHILE WE RESET...
01:05:32 Unidentified Speaker LIVE COVERAGE OF THE ASPEN INSTITUTE AND AN ALL-DAY SUMMIT ON NATIONAL EDUCATION ISSUES. WE EXPECT...

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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