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

One of the provocations, called Open Loop University, wonders what could happen if you gave students six years of college to use whenever they wanted throughout their adult life.

The key to the action-gamers success, the researchers found, was that their brains used a better template for the task at hand.

Finland’s students are only required to take one test during their entire time as students.

Saujani founded Girls Who Code http://girlswhocode.com/ with the goal of closing the gender gap in tech. After partnering with industry giants Facebook and Google, she has a new goal: to teach a million young women to code by 2020

Stanford’s Graduate School of Business took its relationship with online education to the next level on Wednesday, when it announced that a new program for company executives will be delivered entirely by way of the Internet.

"Five hundred years ago, you couldn’t really tell the difference between artists and engineers."

"Start with the student-the student’s well-being and education-before you grab for that shiny new thing," said Joni Lupovitz, vice president of Policy for Common Sense Media. "Outline what we really need to help our kids learn better, while also protecting their privacy and confidentiality. This, she said, can help parents and stakeholders understand that data use can benefit students’ learning and overall achievement."

PhotoMath, a new app for smartphones that will not only help you solve mathematical problems, but show you exactly how it was all done.

When the special education system fails youth and they end up in jail, many stay there for years or decades.

Why can’t students collaborate on tests when collaboration is a valued skill and encouraged in the workplace?