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

The Super School Project set out an open call for America to reimagine high school with meaningful, measurable solutions — and thousands of educators, community leaders, parents and students answered that call with mind-blowing, ground-breaking ideas aimed at making high school more efficient, effective, and accountable for every student, everywhere.

The students apply the freewheeling "Design Thinking" approach, tapping previously undiscovered creativity and draw on methods from engineering and industrial design, and combine them with ideas from the arts, tools from the social sciences, and insights from the business world.

ClearGov, a startup known for delivering interactive statistics dashboards to local governments, is moving to also serve K-12 school districts.

"The time-honored practice of treating degrees as proxies for skill sets doesn’t work with data science and analytics,"

The school’s name is Ad Astra, meaning ‘to the stars’, and seems to be based around Musk’s belief that schools should "teach to the problem, not to the tools."

The company is committed to contributing to higher quality of education around the world, and the technology makes student, family, and teacher feedback accessible.

It should come as no surprise that each year, higher education graduates millions of students into career paths that leave them unhappy and unfulfilled. They suffer from a crisis of meaning.

If your goal is to learn one new thing a day, this app will probably put you at least four or five things ahead thanks to a daily digest of curated and interesting facts on everything from ancient Egypt to the far reaches of space.

While financial support at universities is often good, even when they get into college working class students often feel out of place, lacking the confidence and sense of entitlement of their middle class peers.

Resnick said that rigorous, challenging and interesting work is often the thing that’s missing for students who feel disengaged in a traditional high-school setting.