"The Coolest Education Innovation I Found in Silicon Valley."
Winthrop, R. (February 18, 2026). "The Coolest Education Innovation I Found in Silicon Valley." LinkedIn.
Rebecca Winthrop, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution, PhD Columbia University, adjunct professor at Georgetown University, and leading global authority on education, visited Red Bridge Education in February 2026 and published her observations in a widely read LinkedIn article.
“Red Bridge is designed to develop real agency alongside deep academic mastery.”
”Red Bridge is not the only school experimenting with this idea, but I found their design incredibly clear and with a real possibility to scale across diverse contexts.”
”Red Bridge is an independent school with a sliding fee scale, designed as a ‘lighthouse’ model that can inform public systems.”
”Sometimes the coolest innovation isn’t a new app. It’s a better design for growing up.”