Our children are our future. Education is at the heart at developing their skills and abilities and yet year after year we hear about the degrading state of our educational system. Our nation has spent trillions of dollars on failed programs that research and experts had promised would work. Achievement gaps persist, performance declines are accelerating and so it is of paramount importance that we explore novel ideas and solutions. You might not agree with many or any of the ideas below, and we certainly are not endorsing policies – our hope is just to create a space where bright, dedicated folks from the community can share their ideas – so that we can all come together and better understand each others experiences, concerns and how we might move forward together to build a brighter future.

Mesha Lewis

In order to improve the quality of education and create a positive learning environment, some changes need to be made. Firstly, we should consider replacing computers and MacBooks with book paper and one-on-one learning. Read more>>

Josiah Mccauley

The Government sets the standard for K12 schools. That alone should tell you our education system is trash. The Government wants to pump out robots that keep America running like a machine. The school system intentionally doesn’t teach any valuable skills for the kids to grow up with confidence and be competent. It’s called The Prussian Education System. Read more>>

Jennifer Nelson

As far back as I can remember when I was in fifth and sixth grade, the only opportunity that I had to learn about being an entrepreneur was from Girl Scouts. It was setting goals doing cost benefit analysis working together as a team, and then ultimately setting out on the mission to meet your goal and how to talk to people about what it was that you were selling and why it was that they needed it. Read more>>

Sean Gold

One thing that I dislike about the education system is the false narrative that segregation is over completely. That’s false! There was only a shift in where it went from segregation by race to segregation by ability. Read more>>

Lisa Ziff Sabah

At RISD they taught us how to develop our own language of form. They taught us how to create those forms from all different materials, how to think about those materials and perhaps even develop new materials. Read more>>