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201755 minPGdocumentary

7.8/ 10(5 ratings)• TMDB

School Inc.

201755 minPGdocumentary

7.8/ 10(5 ratings)• TMDB

Andrew Coulson, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, investigates why education does not adopt innovative practices like successful businesses do.

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Hamish Hamilton

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Andrew Coulson, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, investigates why education does not adopt innovative practices like successful businesses do.

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Hamish Hamilton

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Mike Oldfield

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Adrian Thomascast

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Why doesn't education use innovation to grow like a successful business? Follow the late Andrew Coulson, series creator/writer/host and senior fellow of education policy at Cato Institute’s Center for Education Freedom, as he sets out on a worldwide personal quest for an answer to this question.

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