The elite has become obsessed with fixing public schools. Whether it’s Ivy League graduates flocking to Teach for America or new-money foundations such as Gates, Broad, and Walton bestowing billions on the cause, “for the under-40 set, education reform is what feeding kids in Africa was in 1980,” Newark, New Jersey, education reformer Derrell Bradford told the Associated Press last fall.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is the latest entrepreneur to join this rush. He announced in late September that he planned to donate $100 million to the city of Newark to overhaul its school system.
In our February issue, we examine 13 Radical Ideas on How To Spend 100 Million to Really Save Education.
In light of all this reform talk, we recently took to Twitter to ask: How Would YOU Spend $100 Million to Save Education? Follow the tag #fixedu to see real-time answers.
Pictured above: Heads of state in order of succession for the US and China, and their college majors. Notice anything? Full article here. Via: markcoatney & afternoonsnoozebutton
