When asked for evidence of the schools’ effectiveness, the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America points to research by an affiliated group showing that 94 percent of students graduating from Waldorf high schools in the United States between 1994 and 2004 attended college, with many heading to prestigious institutions like Oberlin, Berkeley and Vassar.

“Students who normally might not get involved in a lesson are more engaged and self-directed,” Jones said. “They’re more engaged with each other, which we want to see in our classrooms. We’re seeing behaviors we want to see out of our students that would naturally lead to higher achievement.”

people who adopt an innovation early have different characteristics than people who adopt an innovation later.

When promoting an innovation to a target population, it is important to understand the characteristics of the target population that will help or hinder adoption of the

innovation

However, I have heard from very few faculty members who are not energized by the creative process of achieving the same instructional goals in an entirely new format.

On average, online courses are far more writing-intensive than traditional classes have ever been.