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Ed Jones
Ed Jones leads the Hackable High Schools initiative. He is bootstrapping a Statewide Experiment in Customized Teen Learning, an effort to test new, open sourced curricula under Ohio’s Credit Flex law. At 23, Ed redesigned the world’s most complex software/electronics system and later procured software for U.S. Army Aviation. He’s since worked in and with a score of local government agencies, including bootstrapping a park district with no tax revenues. He works to finish the book Hacking High School, Making School Work for All Teens, and lives & works (usually) in Appalachian Ohio.