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

A new study points to the influence of teachers’ unconscious biases, but it also highlights how powerful a little encouragement can be.

"There is a common and damaging misconception in mathematics–the idea that strong math students are fast math students,"

Break down any political discussion of education policy and you’ll get the kind of rhetoric typical of a wealth manager. The need to invest in our kids. The untapped resource of our young minds. Children as our greatest asset.

Testing demands that students view knowledge as a disposable commodity that is only relevant when it is tested. This contributes to the process of devaluing education.

"Our students deserve to be connected to the outside world."

"Like physical exercise, the more you use specific areas of your brain, the more it grows and gets stronger."

Higher education institutions (universities and colleges) are increasingly adopting BI to reduce management complexity and discover the facts about their businesses that matter. A competency, which can boost academic, administrative and workforce related outcomes and help publicize those achievements.

New York City schools take a look at staffing, the type of equipment they purchase and ways to extend the life of technology.

"We found that moving recess to before lunch increases the amount of fruit and vegetable consumption by about 50 percent, and it also broadens the base because it increase the fraction of kids eating vegetables by about 45 percent," said Joe Price, who is an Associate Professor of Economics at Brigham Young University.

The university’s Computers to Youth program provides surplus computers to underrepresented high school students.