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

Philanthropist and education expert Ted Dintersmith hits the road and discovers four new ways educators are inspiring students.

"It’s not our job to teach people to study for exams and take tests, but to have people graduating who know how to do things,"

It has been revealed recently that several new technological innovations are now being tested in Chinese schools redefining how children can be educated in the 21st century.

OK Go Sandbox is an online resource for educators that uses OK Go’s music videos as starting points for integrated guided inquiry challenges allowing students to explore various STEAM concepts.

Cook tweeted, "Because when we say Everyone Can Code, we mean everyone."

Boston Public Schools have partnered with the Boston Area Research Initiative to create an Opportunity Index, which captures metrics about students that typical education statistics might miss.

The future of the creative writing program at the University of Montana is now in doubt.

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?"