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Podcast: The Bill Walton Show
Episode: The Schools We Need -with Jeanne Allen and Sarah Walton
Description: America’s K-12 education system and institutions were designed in a different era for a different society, and we are at grave risk today from this obsolete system, which fails to prepare all children to succeed as adults. In fact, the system we have now was never designed or intended to reach all children. Look into a classroom and it looks pretty much the same way it looked in the 19th century. The results have been catastrophic.  According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, two-thirds of all students fail to meet grade-level proficiency in any subje...