Want better education? Try ‘School Inc.’

In the Microsoft boom years of the 1990s, Andrew Coulson gave up a highly lucrative career as a software engineer to take on one of the country’s most perplexing problems: Why does American education make so little progress? Between leaving Microsoft and his untimely death last year, Coulson intensively studied education history, research and policy. “School Inc.,” a documentary now airing on PBS, is his magnum opus.
What Coulson reveals in his three-part exploration is that Am