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This year's education innovations focused on technology, leadership, and creative thinking. From the expansion of free college courses to teachers becoming entrepreneurially minded leaders, these are the most important educational advancements of the past year—all of which are sure to impact schools well into 2012 and beyond.


School redesign expert Linda Darling-Hammond explains why we'll be a prison nation if we don't implement major reform

The greenest light bulb ever, sexy solar panels, buildings that eat smog, and more.

GOOD Business tracks the seven big social innovation trends in 2011.

Here are three ways we could better our Big Oil subsidies. Except these ideas would actually ease pain at the pump and save Americans money.
If you're looking for new ideas in education, says financial journalist-turned-innovation consultant Charles Leadbeater, you shouldn't focus on...

This weekend's TEDxAshokaU event is bringing together innovators who are shaking up higher education.
China and Afghanistan aren't the only two foreign countries that matter. You couldn't swing a dead cat in 2009 without hitting headlines about...

A new initiative puts people in developing countries in charge of their lives and prepares students to be change agents.

The state that brought you Lauren Conrad, the Black Eyed Peas, and gangster rap goes hard with education reform, too.

The company has been doing a lot of thinking about how technology can improve cities-and its live streaming an event to tell us about it.

An author from 1900 has a compelling vision for education that includes free universities and in-school medical care for all students.
Today, Google announced the winners of Project 10^100, a two-year search for creative, crowd-sourced solutions to improving the planet.

We all know photovoltaics and solar thermal. Now MIT researchers have made a breakthrough in a new form of solar power.
It appears the time for end-of-year lists is upon us. Popular Science gets a jump on its media brethren, inaugurating the season with its "Best...

Scratch Jr hopes to teach preschoolers enough coding that they can design their own video games.

Last year 82 percent of bottles and cans sold in California were recycled. That's the highest level since 1992. Recycle Rex would be proud.