Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.
John KatzmanAlmost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.
John KatzmanYou still remember your SAT scores. And everybody else does too. Everybody's forgotten everything about themselves, everything else about high school. They remember their SAT scores.
John KatzmanI studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning on the fly in a fashion similar to an architect sketching.
John KatzmanAmericans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better solutions than five-year plans set by even the most well-meaning public servants.
John KatzmanTraditionally, universities have seen size as potentially dilutive to quality. If you doubled the size of campus and faculty, most would argue that you would make it a less compelling school. However, online schools will be as good as their classroom peers only if they are large enough to afford a substantial and ongoing investment.
John Katzman