The system of public high schools in America really hasn’t undergone any kind of serious transformation in 100 years. Steve Jobs reinvented the personal computer, the animation studio, and the music player. Now his wife, Laurene Powell Jobs, wants to rethink high school. On Monday, she unveiled XQ: The Super School Project, a $50 million campaign to conceive of and create the next American high school — or a “Super School.” The project launches with an open call for submissions closing on November 15, from which the project will choose winning proposals to fund. The challenge is deliberately open-ended, providing few specifics on what would constitute a “Super School.” Contestant teams are asked to submit comprehensive plans for teachers, administration and evaluation. The XQ site points out that education is in need of disruption, stating that: “In the last hundred years, America has gone from a Model T to a Tesla,” but public schools have stagnated. XQ’s chief creative officer Russlynn Ali, the former assistant secretary of civil rights at the U.S. Department of Education, told the Washington Post that change is long overdue. The system of public high schools in America really hasn’t undergone any kind of serious transformation in […]