When political will backs the innovative practices and courage needed for reform, it absolutely is possible to turn around a school system.

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Under Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, New York City, for example, has been making Herculean efforts to turn around its failing million-student school system.

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Tom Anderson, the company's Manager Developer Evangelists Team Americas is one of the individuals tasked with leading that charge -- a central focus if the operating system is going to turn around its fortunes.

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In a world where digital learning becomes the platform for our education system, however, this whole notion should turn around.

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So at Lab events we crowd source ideas for a better system, people are invited to cluster around those ideas that inspire them and we turn them into projects, helping to find the funding and support needed to make them fly.

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