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Can You Feel It?

Reflections

I happened to notice what she wrote on Facebook, " Going to be an exciting year for these two!! My Nephews, Alex and Brody : Class of 2029 Last night, I wore my Mom hat as I accompanied my son to his Freshman Orientation. Yet, beyond that learning, the interactions with members of the staff provided so much more.

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?Preparing For an Unknown Future

Edsurge

public schools and learning what it means to be a student. Our 4 million kinders will leave public school in 2029 having spent more than 16,000 hours of their lives doing mandatory classroom time, and if they are lucky, they will enter the job market sometime in the 2030s. This is not how the world works, it is how factories work.

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Can start-up companies profit off one of the lowest paid professions: home-based child care?

The Hechinger Report

Bunyard first learned of Wonderschool through a Craigslist ad. “I Most of that cash — $20 million — came from Andreessen Horowitz, the influential venture capitalist firm co-founded by Marc Andreessen, the creator of Netscape and an early investor in tech successes including Skype, Facebook, Twitter and Airbnb. $20

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