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Why were so many of the voices that spoke up during One Day for Design either overly bitter or overly self-serious?

RSVP for our panel discussion on how schools, businesses and government need to collaborate to educate the workforce of the future.
Cameras followed 20 educators in Phoenix for three years as they sought to improve the quality of their teaching and their students' performance.
Our panelists and audience were full of ideas on how to educate the STEM professionals of the future.

Want to close the achievement gap? Pay attention to what black youth think.

Your daily brew just got a lot more amazing thanks to this new collaborative awareness campaign, launched at TED last week.