We Need To Start Running Schools Like Hedge Funds

This week is TED week - when some of the most relevant minds in society, business, and culture congregate to give speeches 18 minutes long sharing their ideas about how to change the world. The series is important for a number of reasons, not least of which is that it gives us a fresh collective zeitgeist into which we can sink our minds, hopes, energies, and efforts - wiping the slate clean of past problems and upgrading to more novel ones - of sorts. For surely, the challenges that we face mig...