New Frontiers in Education: A conversation with Joseph Connor

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04/06/22 • 55 min

Education has experienced two decades worth of change in the last two years. Joseph Connor joins us to help bring order to the chaos, to glimpse the present clearly enough to see the future. Joseph is a founder, attorney, and teacher. He is the current CEO of Agora, a new startup with the goal of helping families finance their K-12 education, and the co-founder of micro-school company SchoolHouse. You can find Joseph on Twitter (@josephconnor) and on Agora's website, http://withagora.io/.

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