Ep. 13: How do we actually change schools?

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Ep. 13: How do we actually change schools?

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Jan 6, 2016

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Drew Perkins talks with Grant Lichtman about his books, The Falconer: What We Wished We Had Learned In School and #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education which detail his insights on both the why and how we should change our schools.

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Ep. 13: How do we actually change schools?

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