Written by Christine Cooke Fairbanks
February 20, 2019
When Sutherland Institute embarked on creating a publication about educational innovation, we knew we’d have to start by answering the question, “What do you mean by innovation?” It’s a fair question. And we intend for it to be answered by this work.
For now, we’ll concede that innovation to some degree always means change. There’s debate about whether that change – to be called innovation – is required to be grand or whether it can be small; whether it must include lawmaking or if it can grow entirely from private players; and whether it can be cultural rather than structural. From our perspective, innovation in education can include all of those.
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