Montana's 21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."

$300 million in potential competitive grants that would allow schools to redesign teaching, learning, and traditional seat time.

‘We expect free wifi with our coffee, why shouldn’t we have it in our schools?’

The STEM Camp is a "dynamic series of standards-aligned curricula available at no cost to schools, districts, non-profit organizations, and parents for use as part of summer camps, after-school STEM programs or wherever support is needed."

In the 20th Century, meaningful education was all about learning your ABCs. Today, it’s centered on Alphas, Betas and C++.

"This is the end or the beginning of my dream."

Happily, it was the beginning.

A brief test of a person’s ability to filter out visual movement–in this case, black and white bars moving across a screen–can predict IQ.

A study of the English Literacy and Mathematics required for success in the first year of community college.

Twenty states have begun meeting the demand for more bachelor’s degrees by giving community colleges an expanded role and allowing them to offer four-year degrees.

"We have learned that if parents are treated with respect, they are open to changing their assumptions about raising a baby." These parents "learn to talk, read and sing with [their babies] to encourage optimal brain development."

Students at risk of dropping out, took the photos at the beginning of freshman year to help them envision their own commencement. "Sometimes saying it isn’t good enough,"