How do you like school here? I really like it. It gives me an opportunity to

fulfill my dream of becoming a nature or wildlife biologist. You already have a

dream like that to be a nature wildlife biologist. I had no idea. When did that

happen? Just a few like a few days ago. A few days ago. Wow and so how is

old school helping you reach that dream? Tell me. Some kids really when they

woke up in the morning they say when is it school time? I do that too because

the school is really fun. We have an opportunity to do what we want to choose

our path instead of the teacher making a choice for us. We get to choose our path.

Yes friends this is a very well spoken nine-year-old explaining why she is so

into her new school. Her name is Piper she's blonde, freckled,

precocious and she used to go to my son's public school in Brooklyn. Now she's

enrolled with the help of financial aid in an experimental school called Alt

School. The founder is Max Ventilla. He's a former Google executive with a

vision to transform education in America. That's what we want desperately as a

country for the United States to have the best education to be the one that the

most kids are getting rather than the one that the fewest kids are getting. Max

has founded companies before and you're going to hear more from him later but

yeah he thinks he's got a way to fix our schools starting one kid at a time

and then scaling. Here's NPR's education reporter Agnya

Cominets describing the long game for Max Ventilla's enterprise. They have a

giant promise which is that the right software system, the right operating

system is going to transform teaching and learning across the country, across

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