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

Children who attend high-quality preschool do much better when they arrive in kindergarten, and this makes an enormous difference for their later success.

Educational researcher Sugata Mitra is the winner of the 2013 TED Prize. His wish: Build a School in the Cloud, where children can explore and learn from one another.

The Medicaid-funded Montana Children’s Autism Waiver, started in 2009, provides early intervention to children ages 15 months to 5 years old.

Does your school teach coding?

Chains of low-expectation rattle in too many rural high schools, holding young people and their communities down. Timothy Collins delivers a Gothic editorial on education.

It starts with collecting the right kind of data. Much like regular schools, which are often trapped by focusing solely on test scores, afterschool programs also can’t measure themselves by one metric.

"We must reject the idea [that we should] mindlessly impose business thinking on the public sector," he said. After all, most companies are only average performers–and we don’t want just average schools.

Technology won’t solve all of the problems of education. But in the hands of creative, talented and caring teachers and learners, it can help.

What makes a great school system?

The qualities many label as smart are actually learned habits, fostered by the parents, faculty, and administration who value them. How can schools and parents ensure that their own students are smart? We’ve noticed our students possess five habits that all children should be encouraged to pursue.