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Prepared

What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life

by Diane Tavenner

Bill Gates
Recommended by Bill Gates

Recommended by Bill Gates

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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Parenting, Relationships & Family, and Most Recommended Books.

Diane Tavenner, founder of Summit Public Schools, offers a blueprint for a better way to educate our children, based on the revolutionary lessons, insights and methodology she and her faculty developed over 15 years at their famously successful charter schools in California and Washington, which she is now introducing to public school systems acros...

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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Parenting, Relationships & Family, and Most Recommended Books.

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Bill Gates

Co-founder of Microsoft; co-chair of the Gates Foundation

Diane Tavenner’s book offers amazing tips on preparing kids for college, a career, and life.

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