Esther Wojcicki is chair of the Creative Commons Board of Directors, head of the Palo Alto High School Journalism Program, a consultant to Google, and an education blogger for the Huffington Post. She says that engaging students and empowering teachers is the key to needed innovation in American education.

An Innovation Agenda for Learning

In late November, at a meeting sponsored by The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation held at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, some 25 education innovators, policy makers and developers talked about what a new era of innovation in education would look like and what it would take to jump start this kind of agenda.