by Supporting Education | Dec 20, 2012 | News
If you had $40 million to spend toward education, how would you spend it? That’s the big question for seven school districts in King County, which have just recently won a $40 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Three years ago Seattle Public Schools...
by Supporting Education | Dec 3, 2012 | News
Since 2009, over 1,000 schools in the U.S. have increased the amount of time children spend in school. Now, five states, including Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, and Tennessee have decided to crank school time up a notch, adding 300 hours to the...
by Supporting Education | Nov 21, 2012 | News
“The kids had switched off to math long before I had even got there.” This was how one math teacher, Nigel Nisbet, described the start of his teaching experience in a high school geometry class. He would draw geometric shapes on the board and run through an exercise...
by Supporting Education | Nov 15, 2012 | News
Change for education is a slow difficult one. That’s what Bill Gates would say. Working towards improving education requires making mistakes and learning from them. It means that some philanthropic investments in public schools may prove to be relatively ineffective....
by Supporting Education | Nov 8, 2012 | News
George Lucas, chairman and CEO of Lucasfilm, is handing over Lucasfilm and its Star Wars creations to Disney for $4 billion, making it Disney’s fourth largest buyout ever. Disney plans to release a seventh Star Wars film in 2015, and Disney CEO Robert Iger has also...
