July 22, 2009

This week on Smart City, Philip Schlechty of the Schlechty Center joins us to talk about school reform. Phil is a a longtime and passionate advocate for public education and his latest book Leading for Learning: How to Transform Schools into Learning Organizations challenges many of the basic assumptions of educators. We'll talk about how to break through the bureaucracy of the education system and turn schools into learning organizations.
And we'll speak with Clay Shirky. He's the author of the book Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations.The book is about the power of the internet to break through old bureaucracy, and how online networking can create brand new ways of interacting out in the real world.

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