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He was a college drop-out and at least a bit of a rabble-rouser during his own school days, but Steve Jobs held and expressed passionate opinions on the urgent need to transform America’s declining public-school system.
His ideas are of particular importance in the context of this country’s ongoing shortage of students entering the critical STEM fields: science, technology, engineering, and math. And the irony was certainly not lost on Jobs—a remarkably....