Greg Toppo, a journalist who has covered education for more than twenty years, is the author of The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter.Jim Tracy, Ph.D., has been the Head of several independent schools and also President of a teacher training college founded in collaboration with MIT. He has held many senior advisory positions, including Senior Advisor to the Executive Team at Jobs for the Future, Board Member at LearnLaunch, and member of the MassRobotics Advisory Board.

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• Table of ContentsPrologue: Welcome to THAMES Academy1 History Comes in Waves2 Schools Come through, or "Higher School"3 The Illusion of Humanity, or Maybe It's Beautiful4 The Trust Machine5 Centaurs in the Newsroom and in the Classroom6 What if School Were Real Life?7 Don't Tell Me What You Want To Be When You Grow Up8 The Pyramids Are Closed9 "Festina Lente," or Change Management at Rocky Hill School10 Gimme Shelter11 Written in the Soul: Oration vs. Writing12 A Post-Work World of Spiritual and Artistic Renaissance?

Greg Toppo, a journalist who has covered education for more than twenty years, is the author of The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter.Jim Tracy, Ph.D., has been the Head of several independent schools and also President of a teacher training college founded in collaboration with MIT. He has held many senior advisory positions, including Senior Advisor to the Executive Team at Jobs for the Future, Board Member at LearnLaunch, and member of the MassRobotics Advisory Board.

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• Table of ContentsPrologue: Welcome to THAMES Academy1 History Comes in Waves2 Schools Come through, or "Higher School"3 The Illusion of Humanity, or Maybe It's Beautiful4 The Trust Machine5 Centaurs in the Newsroom and in the Classroom6 What if School Were Real Life?7 Don't Tell Me What You Want To Be When You Grow Up8 The Pyramids Are Closed9 "Festina Lente," or Change Management at Rocky Hill School10 Gimme Shelter11 Written in the Soul: Oration vs. Writing12 A Post-Work World of Spiritual and Artistic Renaissance?

Greg Toppo, a journalist who has covered education for more than twenty years, is the author of The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter.Jim Tracy, Ph.D., has been the Head of several independent schools and also President of a teacher training college founded in collaboration with MIT. He has held many senior advisory positions, including Senior Advisor to the Executive Team at Jobs for the Future, Board Member at LearnLaunch, and member of the MassRobotics Advisory Board.

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• Table of ContentsPrologue: Welcome to THAMES Academy1 History Comes in Waves2 Schools Come through, or "Higher School"3 The Illusion of Humanity, or Maybe It's Beautiful4 The Trust Machine5 Centaurs in the Newsroom and in the Classroom6 What if School Were Real Life?7 Don't Tell Me What You Want To Be When You Grow Up8 The Pyramids Are Closed9 "Festina Lente," or Change Management at Rocky Hill School10 Gimme Shelter11 Written in the Soul: Oration vs. Writing12 A Post-Work World of Spiritual and Artistic Renaissance?