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Description: Recorded March 10, 2022 A conversation with Reed Hastings, Founder and CEO of Netflix and Education Philanthropist, and Hoover Institution Director Condoleezza Rice. Changing a system as extensive and entrenched as public education demands shrewd insight, commitment for the long haul, fortitude to weather the journey and gravitas to be a beacon of resolve. For complete coverage of the event, visit hoover.org/news/hoover-institution-hosts-first-education-summit-featuring-scholars-educators-and-advocates. For access to the videos from all sessions, visit the YouTube playlist here - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKruweaZqDNdKdk2xqTjhZkP17SMRoOp9. Reed Hastings co-founded Netflix in 1997. In 1991, Reed founded Pure Software, which made tools for software developers. After a 1995 IPO, and several acquisitions, Pure was acquired by Rational Software in 1997. Reed is an active educational philanthropist and served on the California State Board of Education from 2000 to 2004. He is currently on the board of several educational organizations including KIPP and Pahara. Reed is also a board member of The City Fund. Reed received a BA from Bowdoin College in 1983, and an MSCS in Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University in 1988. Between Bowdoin and Stanford, Reed served in the Peace Corps as a high school math teacher in Swaziland. Condoleezza Rice is the Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution and the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy. In addition, she is a founding partner of Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, an international strategic consulting firm. From January 2005 to January 2009, Rice served as the 66th Secretary of State of the United States, the second woman and first black woman to hold the post. Rice also served as President George W. Bush’s Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (National Security Advisor) from January 2001 to January 2005, the first woman to hold the position. Rice served as Stanford University’s provost from 1993 to 1999, during which time she was the institution’s chief budget and academic officer. As Professor of Political Science, Rice has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981 and has won two of the university’s highest teaching honors – the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. Rice has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Denver; a master’s from the University of Notre Dame; and a Ph.D., from the University of Denver, all in political science. ABOUT THE HOOVER INSTITUTION EDUCATION SUMMIT The Hoover Institution Education Summit was held on March 9-10, 2022 at Stanford University. The convening of this inaugural event comes at a critical inflection point in K-12 education as the COVID-19 pandemic exposed an education system that is ripe with opportunity for reform. The event showcased the broad base of support that exists for bringing new ideas and energy into K-12 education in our country. The program was designed to engage and foster fact-based critical thinking through interactive sessions on the most important policy issue of the day – educating our children and educating them well.