The Coalition For Career and Technical Courses is a new project facilitated by ESSDACK in partnership with postsecondary institutions, all K-12 schools, and the other service centers around the state of Kansas. The response to this project has been off the charts! The post secondary institutions, mainly community colleges and technical colleges have been a dream to work with. At this point there are over 800 courses listed on the website. And Fort Hays State University has yet to enter their 30+ programs. Our goal, and perhaps it's a dream, is to make career and technical courses from post secondary institutions available to every student in the state of Kansas and their desired career field.

Tom Peters is right on! And public education is undoubtedly become one of the best examples for Tom's quote.

The factory model school. Alvin Toffler eloquently points out how obsolete our school structures are.

I recently read Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville. He discussed education in America in the 1830's.

In most educational mission statements there's something about preparing students to be productive members of society.

Thanks to Phil Schlechty for the chart. Phil has identified the four types of student engagement we see in schools.