U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Congressman Jim\u00a0Clyburn\u00a0and former U.S. Education Secretary and South Carolina Governor Richard Riley visited Scott\u2019s Branch High School in\u00a0Summerton\u00a0to speak with students about their role in creating a \u201cCorridor of Innovation\u201d.<\/p>\n
With support from the Department’s Investing in Innovation (i3) grant program, the Riley Institute and \u00a0KnowledgeWorks<\/a>\u00a0are working with local educators and leaders to implement the\u00a0New Tech Network<\/a>\u00a0high school approach, which can be sustained and replicated to increase college and career readiness, at Scott\u2019s Branch and\u00a0Colleton\u00a0County High Schools.\u00a0 These schools will become training centers for expansion of the New Tech Network across South Carolina.<\/p>\n Clarendon and\u00a0Colleton\u00a0Superintendents Rose Wilder and Leila Williams welcomed several guests, including Mick\u00a0Zais, South Carolina Superintendent of Education; Don Gordon, Executive Director, Riley Institute; Chad Wick, founder and director,\u00a0KnowledgeWorks; Brian Ross, president and chief executive officer,\u00a0KnowledgeWorks; and Lydia\u00a0Dobyns, president, New Tech Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan visits Scott\u2019s Branch High School March 30, 2012 U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Congressman Jim\u00a0Clyburn\u00a0and former U.S. Education Secretary and South Carolina Governor Richard Riley visited Scott\u2019s Branch High School in\u00a0Summerton\u00a0to speak with students about their role in creating a \u201cCorridor of Innovation\u201d. With support from the Department’s Investing in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6343,"template":"","event-categories":[41],"class_list":["post-5266","furman-event","type-furman-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"predefined_location":"","location_name":"","location_street_address":"","location_address_locality":"","location_address_region":"","location_postal_code":"","link_text":"","link_css":"","event_start_date":"2012-03-30","event_end_date":"2012-03-30","event_all_day":"","event_start_time":"","event_end_time":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/public-education-initiatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/5266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/public-education-initiatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/public-education-initiatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/furman-event"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/public-education-initiatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/5266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/public-education-initiatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/public-education-initiatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"furman-event-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/public-education-initiatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=5266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}