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How the Startup Mentality Failed Kids in San Francisco

https://www.wired.com/story/willie-brown-middle-school-startup-mentality-failed/

by elie_CH • 8 years ago

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nanis• 8 years ago

This, of course, is not really about the startup mentality, but about the mentality that sees nothing wrong with a kid's school being determined by a lottery instead of parents' choices.

There was education before there was government.

montrose• 8 years ago

Blaming the "startup mentality" makes a good linkbait title, but Occam's razor suggests that when the latest cool-sounding attempt to reform public schools in cities fails, it's probably for the same reasons that previous cool-sounding attempts to reform public schools have failed: politics, turf wars, existing vested interests, and so on.

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