Rocketship's founder, John Danner, recently
left Rocketship...
Horn: Since
leaving Rocketship, you founded Zeal, which offers online tutoring.
At the end of those two years, or even before it, many will
leave Rocketship.
Not exact matches
Online and blended learning have the potential to dramatically transform our education system by being able to individualize for each student's distinct learning needs (just look at the results from Carpe Diem, KIPP Empower, or
Rocketship Education), but whether it does so will have a lot to do with policy — whether we change the incentives and focus not on merely serving students and micro-managing the inputs, but instead focusing on the student outcomes and
leaving behind an antiquated factory - model system for a student - centric one.
What's your take on
Rocketship since you
left and what do you think we'll see from it in the future?
Rocketship's test scores used to be high, but the precipitous drops have
left «
Rocketship's high test scores» as nothing but an old urban legend.
While it is uncomfortable and perhaps even inappropriate to cast minority children into the position of being a commodity market share, the large scale Charter Management Organizations like
Rocketship leave little choice.
Patterson will be
leaving his role as
Rocketship DC's regional director on June 1 to start as KIPP DC's Chief Community Engagement and Growth Officer.