21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."

While the national focus is often on the poor performance of urban schools, rural and many small-town schools perform significantly worse than urban schools in many cases.

A STEAM approach also gives all students opportunities for hands-on learning, increases the chances that girls will stay engaged in STEM-related subject areas, and reinforces the importance of the arts, they write.

"How can we help our daughters?"

There is no more pressing issue than the future of education and no more chances to get it wrong.

Now universities around the country are forming a new, color-blind, Affirmative Action, aiming to close the gap between rich and poor

The University Innovation Alliance is the leading national coalition of public research universities committed to increasing the number and diversity of college graduates in the United States.

I hope you graduate from high school with a diploma that looks more like a resume, or portfolio of experiences, projects, and applied academics, than it does a basic transcript of letter grades and seat-time credits. Your diploma is a reflection of who you are and what you can do.

School leaders and designers from around the world spend three intensive days learning from global thought leaders and from one another while developing an educational vision and facility response to that vision.

Wait a minute. Failure, being extolled, even celebrated? In a high school?

This list of completely free online Coursera courses contains a number of highly rated MOOCs, including a few from Class Central’s Top 50 free online courses of all time.