{"id":3668,"date":"2004-09-27T06:29:17","date_gmt":"2004-09-27T06:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=3668"},"modified":"2004-09-27T06:29:17","modified_gmt":"2004-09-27T06:29:17","slug":"smart-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=3668","title":{"rendered":"SMART GUY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Craig Barrett (Intel CEO)<\/a> on the g-schools:<\/p>\n

Q: On K-12, what would you do? If the problem was yours to solve, what would be your first step?<\/p>\n

A: For about two years plus, I was a member of the Glenn Commission. Senator Glenn had a commission and came out with a report and the title of the report is “Before It’s Too Late.” It basically came out in 2001. …<\/p>\n

The Glenn Commission addresses this issue of what to do with math and science education in K-12 as a series of recommendations. Everything from: Treat teachers as professionals, use technology, put meritocracy into the system, pay for performance, make it easier for people to become math and science teachers, etc. … I signed off on the report.<\/p>\n

Q: You spent a lot of time on it yourself?<\/p>\n

A: Monthly or bi-monthly meetings and other stuff for a couple of years. It was a classic government report. You have a problem, you assign a commission to study it, you get the commission’s report, you accept it with open arms, tie a red ribbon around it, put it on the bookshelf and you never look at it again. Then you continue to ask the question, “So what shall we do?”<\/p>\n

From my very simple standpoint, in addition to the Glenn Commission, my personal standpoint, I would put some competition in the system, and I would quantify the system.<\/p>\n

I happen to be an Arizona resident. It doesn’t make any difference. It can be a California resident or an Oregon resident or a New Mexico resident, there’s an active debate in each one of those states about no child left behind, about quantified testing.<\/p>\n

You hear all of the arguments about how demeaning it is to schools, teachers and takes away from classroom learning. I’m an engineer. I don’t know how to solve a problem unless you measure what you’re trying to solve. … I’m a big fan of testing and I’m a big fan of quantitative measures.<\/p>\n

I’m a big fan of competition. Competition is charter schools or private schools. I don’t think the K-12 public school system is capable of reforming itself in a required period of time unless it has some form of competition. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Craig Barrett (Intel CEO) on the g-schools: Q: On K-12, what would you do? If the problem was yours to solve, what would be your first step? A: For about two years plus, I was a member of the Glenn Commission. Senator Glenn had a commission and came out with a report and the title […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}