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

The children are not measured at all for the first six years of their education.

Numerous studies have highlighted the importance of U.S. students’ math achievement, and now math teachers have a new resource, aligned with the Common Core standards and available free of charge, that might help them teach abstract math lessons.

We seek to form partnerships with other nonprofit agencies and for-profit entities in a common quest to improve public education, and as part of the larger effort to bring families out of poverty.

You are still forced to face the huge challenge of managing and supporting an increasing amount of technology assets with an overworked and understaffed department. When compared to your counterparts in the corporate world, the numbers are simply shocking.

Teachers nationwide have downloaded textbooks and other material from the nonprofit’s website, passing them along to millions of students, by CK-12’s estimate.

The Finnish school system might sound like a restless American schoolchild’s daydream: school hours cut in half, little homework, no standardized tests, 50-minute recess and free lunch. But the Finns’ unconventional approach to education has vaulted Finland to the upper echelon of countries in overall academic performance.

We may be on the verge of meaningful, data-backed reforms.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services CTO Todd Park, another of our contributors, says flatly, "Students should be studying how to start things–how to create and grow new products, initiatives, ventures, and enterprises–a skill set that never goes out of style."

Richard M. Clifford, senior scientist at the FTG Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said other developed countries — including much of Europe — provide prekindergarten programs.

If you drop out, you won’t drive