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

High-quality preschool is the key to success in business and it is one that will open many doors: a stronger workforce, increased economic activity and savings for our businesses. Let’s invest in what works.

School children are more than test-score numbers, and teachers must be more than bean-counters and scorekeepers.

Nationwide, seven out of 10 people locked up in state prisons don’t have a high-school diploma.

Created by Google Comparison Inc CEO Dan Shapiro, the board game recently raised 25 times its target through its crowdfunding campaign, becoming the best-selling product of its kind on Kickstarter.

One small change can yield big results

Heyward said the business kits seem to be a natural fit with the cartoon that is designed to teach kids about key financial principles such as avoiding debt, supply and demand, and the importance of pursuing your dreams. She said Buffett’s talent for simplifying issues helps the program.

These students in Matamoros, Mexico, didn’t have reliable Internet access, steady electricity, or much hope–until a radical new teaching method unlocked their potential.

The program was originally created in-house by project manager Nathan Bashaw and a GA and co-founder Brad Hargreaves, who wanted to give General Assembly students young and old the opportunity to get comfortable with coding.

Eighteen other states and the District of Columbia already set the minimum dropout age at 18, according to the Education Commission of the States.

The economic hole we have fallen into, both in the U. S. and globally, will require solutions across multiple dimensions, but none will be more important than how we collectively approach the education of young people. In this arena – education – we are slipping inexorably down a bad path.