Welcome To the Future of Education
The Future Project is the new national movement to inspire America, starting in our nation’s public schools.
We recruit from among the millions of college students and young professionals living in cities and train them to coach high-school students, in pairs and small teams, to discover their passions and use them to build imaginative Future Projects that change their lives, schools, and world.
During weekly ninety-minute huddles, our students, Future Fellows, also create personal Future Maps and use them to imagine and pursue inspired futures, whether admission to college or leaps forward in leadership or grades or pursuit of passion. Above all, both partners discover what moves them—and learn to channel it for good.
The Future Project launched this October with a Future Corps of more than 500 Future Coaches and Future Fellows at high schools in New York City, New Haven, and Washington, D.C. After six months of building, Fellows will present their projects at a Day of Affirmation in May.
The Challenge
Two in three high-school students say they are bored in class every day. Three in five say they do not see value in what they are learning. One in four students drops out before graduation. Three in four are not prepared for college. And one in three teachers say that their students are not prepared for one primary reason: they are not motivated.
We rarely as a nation talk about this epidemic of apathy, and yet when students are not inspired, they don’t learn. Despite heroic efforts by teachers and school administrators, our system has evolved to prevent inspiration rather than cultivate it. This means that many students don’t trust in their own dreams or take the necessary actions to fulfill them.
We don’t accept this reality.
We imagine a world in which everyone is inspired and in which inspiration is spread through partnerships and projects. Our mission is to give all students the opportunity to have a partner and project in inspiration for every year of high school.
Learn more @ http://www.thefutureproject.org/
