Your Mark On The World
#299: Matchbook Learning Claims Solution To Struggling Public Schools
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:26:20
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September 15, 2015 - Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://onforb.es/1URwXs6. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwitunes or on Stitcher by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwstitcher. K-12 education in the United States just ain’t what it used to be. (Please pardon my use of the vernacular to emphasize the point.) Sajan George, Founder and CEO of Matchbook Learning, explains, “Our nation’s K-12 public education system is in need of a turnaround. Children born in the bottom 25% income zip code have just a 9% chance of graduating from college. Our nation’s schools continue to slide against international peers. We once ranked at the top of the world in how we educated our next generation and now we are in the middle. We are failing both as a country and particularly our children of poverty. Our country needs a sustainable, scalable turnaround solution.” George is leading revolution in education that he hopes will turn this disturbing trend aroun