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Behind 826 Valencia’s growth from San Francisco storefront to national tutoring powerhouse

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Published on March 12, 2019

Writing is hard. It’s hard even for people who write as a profession, say, like me. Or even still for people who write as a profession and are actually good at it, say, like Dave Eggers.

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“Let them write about left-handed gerbils from Uranus. Let them write about Lionel Messi. It doesn’t matter. The point is if they’re given the chance to write about what they love, they’ll be engaged."—Dave Eggers
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Posters written by students at 826 Valencia
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