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Don’t Expect Apple’s Digital Textbook Innovation To Come From The Top Down

January 26, 2012Erik Kain

announced recently its entrance into the digital textbook market. Dead-tree textbooks, the company claims, are a thing of the past. And, as David Thier notes, is off to a very strong start with its new textbook service – selling over 350,000 textbooks in just three days. Many are enthusiastic about the tech giant’s entrance into […]

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Apple, byline=E.D. Kain, charter schools, Digital textbooks, Gear, Google, Home-Schooling, Human Ingenuity, iBook, innovation, IPad, Macintosh, Microsoft, Tech, Textbook, Twitter

Sensationalism and the Ethics of Headlines

October 4, 2011Erik Kain

I enjoy poking fun at dishonest arguments from time to time, but one thing I enjoy even more is having a little fun with dishonest headlines. I recently wrote a piece about Michigan charter schools in which I quoted a professor, Dr. Gary Miron of Western Michigan University, who testified before the House that 80% […]

Read more at Forbes.

byline=E.D. Kain, charter schools, Ethics, faux privatization, headlines, journalists, Media, new media, Washington

80% of Michigan Charter Schools are For-Profits

September 29, 2011Erik Kain

The charter school movement began as a grassroots attempt to improve public education. It’s quickly becoming a backdoor for corporate profit. In Michigan, four out of five charter schools are run by for-profit EMO’s. Once upon a time, the charter school movement was a grassroots phenomenon. Its proponents wanted to create a system of experimentation […]

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