Liberating Learning: Technology,
Politics, and the Future of American
Education by John E. Chubb
Did They Read My Mind?
Praise for Liberating Learning
Moe and Chubb have delivered a truly stunning book, rich with the
prospect of how technology is already revolutionizing learning in
communities from Midland, Pennsylvania to Gurgaon, India. At the same
time, this is a sobering telling of the realpolitik of education, a battle in
which the status quo is well defended. But most of all, this book is a call to
action, a call to unleash the power of technological innovation to create an
education system worthy of our aspirations and our childrens dreams. —
Ted Mitchell, CEO of the New Schools Venture Fund As long as we
continue to educate students without regard for the way the real world
works, we will continue to limit their choices. In Liberating Learning, Terry
Moe and John Chubb push us to ask the questions we should be asking,

to have the hard conversations about how far technology can go to
advance student achievement in this country. —Michelle Rhee, Chancellor
of Education for the Washington, D.C. schools A brilliant analysis of
how technology is destined to transform Americas schools for the better:
not simply by generating new ways of learning, but also—and surprisingly
—by unleashing forces that weaken its political opponents and open up the
political process to educational change. A provocative, entirely novel vision
of the future of American education. —Rick Hanushek, the Paul and Jean
Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Terry Moe and John Chubb, two long-time, astute observers of educational
reform, see technology as the way to reverse decades of failed efforts.
Technology will facilitate significantly more individualized student learning
—and perhaps most importantly, technology will make it harder and harder
for the entrenched adult interests to block the reforms that are right for our
kids. This is a provocative, informative and, ultimately, optimistic read,
something we badly need in public education. —Joel Klein, Chancellor of
the New York City schools
Personal Review: Liberating Learning: Technology, Politics, and
the Future of American Education by John E. Chubb
Rarely have I ever read a book so consistent with my own thinking on the
same subject. Here, of course, the subject is the evolving role of online
instruction in K-12 education.
Over the past six years I have worked in this same field as a small
entrepreneur ([...]) developing business plans, services, etc. and I am
amazed that I find nothing to criticize in "Liberating Learning."
But I would come across as too much of a sycophant if I could not offer just
a little adverse commentary.
One of the chapters, entitled "The Politics of Blocking," could have been
followed by a chapter on the strategies for unblocking. Sometimes battles
that can't be won inside a bureaucracy can be won on private turf- much in
the way Federal Express took on the Post Office. If private educational
alternatives can be made sufficiently inexpensive, then they may gain
market share and grow without much political interference. Thus I would be
somewhat more optimistic than the authors regarding the time frame for
overcoming the "inertia" in our educational systems.
I also believe that assessment systems may be the Achilles Tendon of
public education. The corruption within most of them should be relatively
easy to expose and publicize. That, in turn, may drive customers towards
alternatives and/or put more political pressure on the public systems.
Maybe Moe & Chubb will write a sequel or second edition. That would be a
good opportunity for them to extend the content of their excellent book.

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