Ed in ‘08 Promotes Two Million Minutes on YouTube

I checked in with Bob Compton a few days ago to see how things are going with Two Million Minutes, the education documentary he produced. 
Bob told me that now that he has partnered with Ed in ‘08 (a nonpartisan project promoting Strong American Schools–watch the short video on the home page!) to promote 2MM, he and the [...]

Negotiating In Business: Why Indians Rule

There’s been a lot of talk about why the people of India seem to be so good at math, science and engineering.  There’s also been a great deal of discussion about why many Indians have become outstanding entrepreneurs in a variety of fields. 
Tim Ferriss, the author of The 4-Hour Workweek, has a post on his [...]

Missing PISA Scores: Oops! We Forgot To Include China and India!

Sometimes the truth hurts.  And sometimes the truth is buried in colorful charts that happen to have glaring omissions.
Bob Compton, the executive producer of the education documentary, Two Million Minutes, posted on his blog about the recent release of test scores collected by PISA–Programme for International Student Assessment.
You can read about the US scores (brace [...]

Two Million Minutes Gets People Thinking–Or, Well, SOME People, Anyway

Bob Compton, a successful entrepreneur and venture capitalist, is about to release the documentary he has produced called Two Million Minutes. The film follows six students–a boy and a girl going through their last year of high school in China, India and the United States.  It’s about to stir up a hornet’s nest of discussion about [...]

Two Million Minutes of High School

I’ve said before that high school is wayyyy too long. 
Or, to be more precise, students spend wayyyyy too much time on irrelevant fluff (I’m referring to the going to/from, attendence activities, social dramas, and basic classroom blah blah–though there is certainly irrelevant fluff among the course offerings as well).
Well, a new documentary follows six students in three [...]