It also hurts the chances that other innovative efforts like School of One will take as considered an approach to iterating around boosting student learning.

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They are learning about new ways to keep consumers satisfied, and boosting their bank balances in the process.

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In seven and a half years, he united education reformers, teachers, principals and business stakeholders behind an aggressive education reform agenda that included opening over 100 new schools, expanding after-school and summer learning programs, closing down underperforming schools, increasing early childhood and college access, dramatically boosting the caliber of teachers, and building public-private partnerships around a variety of education initiatives.

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It means boosting up those trying the never-before-tried, providing resources to measure the results, and encouraging constant learning from failure as much as from success.

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