Worldchanging: Bright Green: Steve Barr: Outlaw Private School:
"Steve Barr, the founder of GreenDot schools, has been on the front lines of turning around education in Los Angeles, where they've built 17 schools. Barr (after cracking a joke about the TED/Pop!Tech rivalry) tells us that he's not an educator, but he is a product of the California public school system. He tells us that his class, the class of 1977 of Cupertino High School, represents the last year of the fully funded, truly high quality educational system in the US. Silicon Valley wasn't about engineers who liked to surf - it was the product of a really good school system. 'A couple guys down the street, Steve and Steve, went into a garage and built a pretty cool company.' And as a son of a waitress, Barr received the same education."
"In my lifetime, California schools went from the best in the world to the worst." We debate about this. The left says "let's give more money to a failed centralized system built for a manufacturing society." The right is largely indifferent and blames the teacher's union."
"Steve Barr, the founder of GreenDot schools, has been on the front lines of turning around education in Los Angeles, where they've built 17 schools. Barr (after cracking a joke about the TED/Pop!Tech rivalry) tells us that he's not an educator, but he is a product of the California public school system. He tells us that his class, the class of 1977 of Cupertino High School, represents the last year of the fully funded, truly high quality educational system in the US. Silicon Valley wasn't about engineers who liked to surf - it was the product of a really good school system. 'A couple guys down the street, Steve and Steve, went into a garage and built a pretty cool company.' And as a son of a waitress, Barr received the same education."
"In my lifetime, California schools went from the best in the world to the worst." We debate about this. The left says "let's give more money to a failed centralized system built for a manufacturing society." The right is largely indifferent and blames the teacher's union."
