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

The STEAM camps represent a totally new approach to the curriculum, and forge a new beginning in reinventing K-12 education.

"To really lower the dropout rate, d’Entremont argued for early childhood care, like more pre-k and full-day kindergarten, and a better way to monitor which kids are likely to be at high-risk of dropping out–and provide resources in elementary and middle school. ‘We need to focus more on prevention as opposed to intervention,’ he said, explaining that ‘changes that occur at the very tail end of a student’s career’ are least likely to bring change."

A menagerie of virtual 3D animals that swim, eat bugs, and fly are building crucial reading skills in autistic children

When I asked French parents how they disciplined their children, it took them a few beats just to understand what I meant. "Ah, you mean how do we educate them?" they asked. "Discipline," I soon realized, is a narrow, seldom-used notion that deals with punishment. Whereas "educating" (which has nothing to do with school) is something they imagined themselves to be doing all the time.

Author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools. With spellbinding eagerness, he talks about how his 826 Valencia tutoring center inspired others around the world to open.

This may be the best 14 minutes of your day (and the best TED talk ever).

"This study validates something that seems to be intuitive, which is just how important nurturing parents are to creating adaptive human beings."

What makes MOVband different is that it is available to schools as part of loan program, which could encourage a far wider uptake of the device.

"When we previously revisited them as young adults at age 21, we found that the children who had received the early educational intervention were more likely to go to college; now we know they were also more likely to make it all the way through and graduate."

Part of the grant’s purpose will be to change the way that science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) topics are traditionally taught in secondary schools.