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My guest this week is Ryan Pryor. Ryan is an educator with Crosstown High School based out of Memphis, Tennessee.
The Public School system in the United States is broken. To better understand this, I did a podcast with an educator who’s not scared to do something different.
Crosstown High School was started out of the XQ Institute, which works directly with the Emerson Collective, which was established by Laurene Powell Jobs.
Our education problems are not local; they are national. They affect all of us.
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Please enjoy this episode with Ryan Pryor!
My guest this week is Ryan Pryor. Ryan is an educator with Crosstown High School based out of Memphis, Tennessee.
The Public School system in the United States is broken. To better understand this, I did a podcast with an educator who’s not scared to do something different.


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