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Fixing Education: One Dad's Quest to Unclog the Bathroom Sink, Redesign School, and Save the World
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Those who neglect to teach their children well condemn their grandchildren to slavery of one sort or another.
There is a lot of noise around the subject of educational reform these days. Everyone has a sense that something is deeply wrong with our public school system but no one can
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B.T. Higgins
B.T. Higgins lives in the wild urban jungles of Alaska with his wife and four children. As you might expect, he is an avid fan of long naps and noise-canceling headphones. He has been a garbageman, a propane technician, a teacher, a tu- tor, a musician and an exotic-bird-cage scrubber, but writ- ing is, by far, his favorite job.
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