Author: Joe Ricketts
Why we, a civil rights leader and a philanthropist, are on a mission to transform education
This article appeared in the Opinion section of Fox News on 3/15/2023. In 2020, there were over 2 million people in the United States between the ages of 16 and 24 who had dropped out of high school. In 1954, Bob Woodson... Read More
AI Can Save Education From Itself
This article appeared in the Opinion section of the Wall Street Journal on 1/23/2023. ChatGPT, the new artificial-intelligence technology created by Open AI, has many worrying about the future of education. The two largest... Read More
Education Needs to be about Skills
I read an interesting pair of articles in the Wall Street Journal last week. They touched upon the challenges young people face on their path from high school to career. Our work at Opportunity Education makes this topic particularly... Read More