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POST VO LU M E X X I , N U M B E R 11 A biweekly publication of The Post Oak School
JA N UA RY 8, 2016 Available online at www.postoakschool.org
MON T E S SOR I 2 . 0? by John Long, Head of School
Upper Elementary students focus intently on a science experiment.
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ilicon Valley, first the breeding ground for tech innovation, has now turned its creative energy toward education reform. Tech entrepreneurs are starting their own schools or backing education start-ups financially. One tech entrepreneur says we must “break out of this kind of Prussian-factory model of education.”
(Yes, believe it or not, what we call “traditional school” in 21st century America was actually borrowed from industrial Prussia during the mid19th century.) Lest you think this means public schools, it does not. Most private schools in America are also continued on page 2