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

Only a few states have developed programs to help improve graduate rates among pregnant girls and young mothers.

"This is not a field for mile-wide, inch-deep managers"

"If college-bound youth with autism gravitate toward STEM majors, then this has the potential to be a silver lining story for a group where gloomy predictions about outcomes in adulthood are more the norm." says study author Paul Shattuck.

Earlier this year, OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing the tablets, taped shut, with no instruction. "I thought the kids would play with the boxes. Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, found the on-off switch … powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child, per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs in the village, and within five months, they had hacked Android," Negroponte said. "Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera, and they figured out the camera, and had hacked Android."

Business leaders and policymakers should consider investment in young
children one of the most effective strategies to secure
the future economic strength of their communities and
the nation.

BROOKLYN CASTLE tells the stories of five members of the chess team at a below-the-poverty-line inner city junior high school that has won more national championships than any other in the country.

It’s interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends.

A teacher who can be replaced by a computer… should be.

And the disruption is just beginning.

With the generous support of K12, we’ve put together this collection of stories from our archives, along with other relevant information, to help you boost graduation rates in your own schools.