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

There’s a pretty strong gender divide in the STEM subjects: Many fewer girls are interested in even studying these subjects, and they don’t feel at all confident about their skills.

In other words, not only do they get a head start on a great career, they agree to teach others how to code.

An award-winning principal shares the secrets to make everyone’s school experience better.

The TED speaker series features "ideas worth spreading."

Colleges would be rated on measures such as affordability and outcomes, including graduation and transfer rates. Students at top-performing colleges could receive larger federal grants and more affordable student loans.

We, as adults, must now nurture that interest. Teachers are already heavily engaged in that goal, but STEM involvement doesn’t end in the classroom, so the other members of the village must do their part as well.

Florida is one of 21 states across the USA where community colleges are expanding into the baccalaureate world.

In a video address to participants in Maker Camp, an online summer camp for teenagers, Duncan hailed the virtual program, saying that "it shows the power of online learning."

At the very moment when China and some European nations are seeking to repli
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cate our model of broad education in the humanities, social sciences, and natural
sciences–as a stimulus to innovation and a source of social cohesion–we are instead
narrowing our focus and abandoning our sense of what education has been and should
continue to be–our sense of what makes America great.

"This is a discipline for the future and priming the pipeline with students is something we need to do."