Note: this post was originally published on the blog of Edmentum, a leading provider of technology and services for K-12 educators and students. At the time, I served as Edmentum’s VP of Product Strategy and Experience. You can see the original post here: https://blog.edmentum.com/my-why-shameless-idealism. Historians say that, in the Middle Ages, the percentage of the population that was literate was somewhere around 5-15%. Only monks, priests, nobles, and a few of…