After earning an undergraduate and a masters degree in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Maeda headedto art school in Japan at Tsukuba University Institute of Art and Design, obtaining a PhD in graphic design.
The choice movement always struck me as a path toward division and the breakdown of the neighborhood school, and teaching to tests is perhaps the most wrong-headed idea education reformers have ever dreamed up.
Two years ago, the state approved Southside and Northside to join the newly created Believe High School Network, which Mr. Calderon-Melendez then headed.