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Comment author: abramdemski 17 August 2012 06:16:42AM 4 points [-]

This Company starts in the United States and ties into existing home school regulations with a self-driven web learning program that requires minimum parental involvement and results in a high school degree.

The nice thing about this is that it works on an existing market, while leveraging the successful tactics discovered through hard work by Coursera & the like to bring advances to the domain.

Of course, techniques designed for university courses may not precisely transfer.

I'm skeptical about 'leveraging' videos from Khan Academy for a for-profit education system. Makes it sound half-baked.

This idea may fit with the general spaced-repetition enthusiasm I am seeing in other proposals.

It cloaks itself as merely a tool to aid homeschool parents, similar to existing mail-order tutoring materials, hiding its radical mission to end high school as we know it.

...And you just blew your cover. :)

Comment author: jacoblyles 17 August 2012 06:42:58PM 2 points [-]

...And you just blew your cover. :)

Nobody of any importance reads Less Wrong :)

Comment author: DaFranker 17 August 2012 08:11:13PM 1 point [-]

...you just jinxed it! Now congress is going to pass a new bill forbidding online aids to count towards compulsory education requirements for home schooling, and otherwise hamper the idea by whatever means necessary.

After all, what better propaganda system is there than a bunch of gullible "teachers" who regurgitate everything you tell them to and whom children look up to as absolute authorities?

Comment author: jacoblyles 18 August 2012 01:00:22AM 6 points [-]

Fortunately, the United States has a strong evangelical Christian lobby that fights for and protects home schooling freedom.

Comment author: DaFranker 18 August 2012 01:26:03AM 2 points [-]

Good point. I have a tendency to forget about them. Mind projection and all that.