CLEVELAND, Ohio — I’d long thought wrongheaded leadership had stalled efforts to improve learning for students who took instruction in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.

As a onetime CMSD employee, I spent a couple of years hoping somebody would shake the lethargy out of the day-to-day education in a district where most schools failed to meet state standards. Back then, I noticed that students faced academic challenges partly because buildings lacked technology and their teachers lacked training in the tech space.

No more.

I realized it last Friday as Curtis Timmons and Shawn Braxton dazzled me with hardware they’ve been installing for CMSD. I thought Ohio University, where I used to teach, had cutting-edge tech, but the small-town university had nothing like what these adminis

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