Essays

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  • Why Bottom-Up Education Reform Is Capped

    A teacher can change a classroom, but a classroom cannot change a district. Here is why.

    For the past several years, as we were building Schoolze and later 21CS, I believed in a specific kind of magic.. I believed that if we could just find enough "Hero Teachers," we could change education from the bottom up. I thought that if we gave the most innovative educators th...more