Notes from Class/Mary 8.1.07

BOOKS:
Shakespeare, Einstein & The Bottom Line
Ecology of Commerce
Where the Wasteland Ends

SITES TO CHECK OUT:
Say Yes To Education
Bloomberg website - PlaNYC 2030
www.sustainablepratt.org
Cloud Institute
The Healthy Schools Network
The Edison Project (schools)
Market Data Retrieval
Harlem Children's Zone (whole neighborhood approach)
Michigan Plan - guarantees college tuition link 1 link 2
Feeder Schools

PEOPLE TO TALK TO:
Eva
Deborah Johnson
Jamie Cloud

NOTES:
-Make a business case for sustainability/financial viability
-incentive for parents
-Think about school - lots of people need to buy in
-K-3 is a critical time
-social/economic factors preventing kids from going on
-manage cycle of an activity
-consultancy
-target teachers
-look at where others stand along the model
-graduate education system is the best in the US - hold onto that - why has our ranking slipped?
-Educational Consulting - getting students prepared for the future - educate people for the future
-K-12 "owned" by the public sector (it is very political)
-Look at what went wrong, what's the future forward
-"feedstock" for the future - through higher education - cultivate the seed beds
-look at the life cycle of the creative person
-people are paying for creativity
-strategic advantage for American grad school education
-incentive systems
-new voices for business
-definition of design - "to mark out"
-contributory value of art and design to economy
-Scott note: 3rd grade reading stats make plans of how much prison space is needed
-Scott note: School is client (they have $, kids do not)
-Suggestion-Pratt Sustainable Survey (ala Quinnipiac College Poll)
-America is cowboy country (wild, eccentric, risk taking) = US school's competitive advantage
-Designers are Abductive Reasoners