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

Teacher bonuses in more than two dozen school districts statewide will depend to some degree on how well they can engage parents throughout the year, as part of new education changes signed into law earlier this year.

Take a look at the resources in this e-news. We at Montana AHECs hope that you will find them helpful as you find ways to stay inspired — and help your students aspire to dream big!

If a student is not destined to become an entrepreneur, the course may still help them become an intrapreneur — someone able to create jobs within an organization as well as a better employee if they better understand the challenges inherent in running a company. In either case, students would be better empowered to create new products and services — not to mention new jobs.

Not only does our public-education system rank 26th out of 34 nations when it comes to graduation rates, but the U.S. also fails at treating teachers as professionals.

Proposals will be selected to provide a program that offers a comprehensive, non-commercial, objective, and diverse treatment of issues related to the conference theme.

The low salaries and high turnover that characterize the field of early education remain barriers to creating a statewide system of high-quality early education and care.

America’s schoolteachers are some of the most brilliant, driven and highly skilled people working today–exactly the kind of people we want shaping young minds. But they are stuck in a system that doesn’t treat them like professionals.

The chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to a nine-classroom school here. So do employees of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard.

"What’s exciting is the students get to leave the walls of the building and reach out to people in the community," Higgins said. "It forms a nice, natural connection between the community and these students."

It is the story of a group of teachers who collectively recognize that waiting for superman is a strategy that is failing our poorest students.