The Hechinger Report – Tara García Mathewson
“Ted Dintersmith, a venture capitalist turned education philanthropist, is convinced the U.S. education system needs to change. But he doesn’t want to force it. He spent the 2015-2016 school year traveling to schools in all 50 states and he discovered that teachers, when trusted and supported, often innovate on their own. The method of transforming K-12 schools that he advocates in his latest book, What Schools Could Be: Insights and Inspiration from Teachers across America, is of the grassroots variety. Small steps lead to big change, he says.” (more)