In today’s news, Herman Cain leads in the polls after last night’s GOP debate; Occupy Wall Street’s ‘hipster cop’ is revealed; police are hunting exotic animals that have been let loose in Ohio; and scientists demonstrate that the number of Facebook friends you have is directly related to the size of your brain. In other [...]

Eric Schwarz – Citizen Schools Co-Founder and CEO
I’ve got an iPhone in my pocket and an iPad in my bag. Chances are our most of our Teaching Fellows have an iPod of one kind or another. But Steve Jobs’ influence goes beyond the products we love. He was someone in the for-profit sector who also inspired people working for social change.

3,000 people have died in protests in Syria; Occupy Wall Street protestors dodge displacement from Zuccotti Park; Starbucks says climate change is seriously threatening coffee bean harvests; fraud grows as online college courses gain in popularity; and the iPhone 4s has the biggest iPhone debut yet. In entertainment news, a community service program doesn’t even [...]

Colin Stokes – Citizen Schools Director of Marketing and Communications

Is your classroom an Apple store? Or a 7-11?
Lots of talk this week about the way Apple’s design thinking changed our culture.
In my work as a marketer for Citizen Schools, I think a lot about how design can transform education.

Yesterday evening we learned that Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple and one of the most inspiring innovators of our time, had lost his battle with cancer at age 56. Perhaps appropriately so, devices he created were often the channels through which news of his passing flooded social networks, text messages, and email inboxes.