#goodread from Marketplace submitted by Brad Hinson
Laurene Powell Jobs is launching a $50 million crowd-sourcing campaign to rethink the American high school. Teams from around the country will compete for funding and support to turn their ideas into new “super schools.”
Powell Jobs is best known in most circles as the wife of the late Steve Jobs, but she’s also made a mark as an education philanthropist. A group she co-founded called College Track has helped send thousands of disadvantaged high school students to college. The new campaign is dubbed XQ: The Super School Project.
“High school hasn’t been reinvented in over 100 years,” said Powell Jobs, board chair of XQ Institute, in an interview. “It was designed for early 20th-century workforce needs, and as we all know, in the last 100 years the rest of our world has changed radically, but schools have not.”
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