"The Consumer Bankers Association Foundation and banks across the United States have partnered with Ashoka's Youth Venture to launch the Banking on Youth competition, which is designed to provide young people between the age of 13 and 20 with an opportunity to showcase their ideas for an innovative venture that directly benefits society.

"Stories aren't merely essential to how we understand the world – they are how we understand the world.

"A twelve-year teaching veteran and a California regional Teacher of the Year, Heather Wolpert-Gawron's musings on educational policy, curriculum design, and daily school life can also be read at www.tweenteacher.com.

"There is plenty of evidence that students learn better when they are actively engaged in their learning. JFF's series on student-centered learning covers key topics, including math for minorities and how school districts can encourage effective student-centered learning approaches."

"It turns out that validating content is not rocket science. Even a first-grade student can begin to understand the organization of information on the web. It seemed obvious at the time that understanding the grammar, punctuation, and syntax of the internet was so basic to being literate in our web-based society that schools immediately would begin to teach all children web literacy. Yet, that hasn’t been the case in most schools.