Guest Commentary: Customized Schooling: Beyond Whole-School Reform

The widely-anticipated book by Rick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and Olivia Meeks, a research assistant at AEI, Customized Schooling: Beyond Whole-School Reform, is just about to hit to bookshelves, the e-book readers, and the tablets. The impact of virtual education on the future of education is at the center of their theories. In an article for AEI's Outlook, Hess and Meeks stress three key points from Customized Schooling.

• The "whole school" approach to education reform has made it difficult for specialty education providers to get past bureaucratic rules.


• "Unbundling" education means offering students an assortment of services instead of an indivisible package of "education."


• Virtual schooling and customized educational tools are breaking the whole-school model.

Click here for more from Hess and Meek's Outlook article and a sneak peek at their new book.