Explains is what the valley is that teachers are adding to our daily lives. Those are philanthropists. When you listen to them talking about education and the road you drive a new cycle, which are most like to hear about our common core standards, standardized testing, you might hear about that we need more accountability of more teacher evaluations and we also need to copy were things from countries like finland and china. But when you actually spend time with students and teachers, the conversation is really, really different. And so, for example, in my chapter one ipo by a student named maria from el salvador, and maria lugar in 2008 and when she entered Mission High School she struggled, she barely barely spoke english. She really, really struggled with multiplechoice questions and yet by the 11th grade i watched maria stand in front of the classroom and present her 12 Page Research paper on the war in iraq. She presented it with confidence and poise and at the same time celebratin