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Your buyer is run by public, unionized bureaucracies. How open do you think they would be to trying something radically new?



Actually, by the phrasing it sounds like the educational "system" is to be run around completely, perhaps pitching this directly to parents similarly to products like "Hooked on Phonics."


Actually, a lot of teachers / professors are really trying to make their curricula more effective / relevant. A mentioned before, it's no longer a matter of just having a program that work and convincing teachers to use it. Not only do you have to get involved with the DoE, but now you also have to get Regents' Boards, accreditation organizations, and other governing bodies on board.


you have to pitch to the DoE. and that's a whole other blackhole of ineptitude,


Don't worry. No Child Left Behind changed all of that.




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