From my perspective, the Chalkboard Project suffers a bit from hubris, the idea that it will ride in to solve the problems we educators have, and the idea that it will have some way to leverage change even it should find answers. CP has a very long way to go to get up to speed on the huge number of ed issues surrounding their overly broad and vague goals.
Funding aside with its presumptions, the issues among educators of what the best practices are and how we should implement them would require a massive amount of rersearch and development by CP. Otherwise it is merely another voice in the cacophony harping at educators. Second exactly what leverage over schools does it think it will have? It doesn't own the schools. It's no expert, so what will it do? Go the legislature to mandate more nice things.
If CP really thinks it has answers, it should do the hard work of developing and proving its answers. Start some lab schools, CP, and show us your notions correspond to reality. For years many of us have advocated lab schools as a way to develop and demonstrate what might actually be possible as to educational performance and economic efficiency. If you want to be a change-oriented leader, will you step forward and put your ideas to the test?
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