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SDCOE

Dedicated to Delivering a 21st Century Education to our Children!

"Today's learners are not the ones our systems (and teachers) were designed and trained to teach."
Marc Prensky, Thought Leader in Education Masters in Teaching, Yale  / MBA Harvard University

"Our educational system is stuck in the past. It's imperative that we create new kinds of schools."
George Lucas, Director, Producer, Writer

"What good is it for kids to graduate in 2006 from a school system that was designed for 1956?"
Bill Gates is determined to use his fortune to change the crisis in American schools.

"If reform efforts do not involve changing of the 150 year old educational delivery system, it is not reform.......it is just reorganizing the chairs".
Matthew T. Spathas, Partner, SENTRE Partners / CEO, Bandwidth Now

"Education must move toward real-time.  Kids don't understand sitting in classrooms, looking at books written 20 years ago."
Dr. Larry Smarr, Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, UCSD

"School is just falling way behind in the race for presentation of ideas. In the '30s and the '40s, school almost worked because the alternatives were watching the corn grow and the river flow."
Nolan Bushnell, Founder, Atari
"If you plan for one year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, plant trees. If you plan for 100 years, educate mankind".
Chinese Proverb

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