Author: Carlos Garcia, San Francisco Superintendent Five decades ago I went to my public elementary school. Three decades ago I started teaching. Two decades ago I sent my own children through public schools. In my lifetime I have been to thousands of schools and I can say that this simple assessment has been one of [...]

Author: Milton Chen, Executive Director, George Lucas Educational Foundation George Lucas, founder and chairman of our foundation, has said: “It’s imperative that we create new kinds of schools, freed from an educational system deeply rooted in the distant past and the kinds of schools so many of us attended decades ago.” For more than a [...]

Author: Jill Valet, President and Founder of Playworks If you want your child to do well in life, the most important thing you can do as a parent may to be to play with them. As Stuart Brown notes in his recent book, Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the [...]