Lauren Powell Jobs to Give $50 Million to High School Redesigners

The XQ project comes under the umbrella of the Emerson Collective, the group created by Powell-Jobs to administer her philanthropic efforts, of which this is by far the most ambitious. Teams will also discuss student needs in the changing world, and create systems to build these ideas into American high schools. Eventually, the group hopes to build between five and 10 Super Schools, and the endeavors by those schools will be supported over five years.

The Super School Project invites teams of educators, inventors and visionaries from many fields to submit innovative redesign plans for the way high school education is conducted in the U.S. They are looking for ideas that will make education “more relevant and engaging” for students as well as more successful at graduating young men and women who have the skills to be competitive in an ever-changing marketplace.

‘Designed for a world and an economy that look nothing like today, high school is failing to prepare our students for the jobs of the future. The Super School Project website puts it, we’ve since gone “from a Model T to a Tesla and from a switchboard to a smartphone, but our public schools have stayed frozen in time”.

We know from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s low-yield 0 million sally into Newark schools that money, when grossly mismanaged, doesn’t necessarily buy a better education system.

‘We must harness the ingenuity and creativity in communities and towns across America to rethink and create a new approach to high school that gives every student the tools and opportunity to succeed’. She is adamant, however, that all the Super Schools will be public and freely available to all.

Their son Reed was born six months later and in the years following, the couple also had two daughters – Erin and Eve.

The newest philanthropic effort by Powell-Jobs, the spouse of the late.co-founder Steve Jobs, is in an space the place she has greater than 20 years of expertise – schooling. describes itself as “an open name to reimagine and design the subsequent American highschool”.