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$50 Million Competition to Design Revamped High School

The school reform initiative XQ: The Super School Project is calling on teams of educators and students to submit design plans for a revamped high school.

By Madlin MekelburgSept. 16, 2015, 11:00 p.m. CentralUpdated Sept. 16, 2015, 11:00 p.m. Central

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$50 Million Competition to Design Revamped High School

by Madlin Mekelburg, The Texas Tribune
September 16, 2015

<h1>$50 Million Competition to Design Revamped High School</h1>
<p class="byline">by Madlin Mekelburg, The Texas Tribune <br />September 16, 2015</p>
<p><span>The school reform initiative XQ: The Super School Project is calling on teams of educators and students to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/14/us/laurene-powell-jobs-commits-dollar50-million-to-create-new-high-schools.html?ref=education">submit design plans for a revamped high school</a>. </span><span id="docs-internal-guid-47253202-d752-ba69-3ba6-e2cd86927e54">While researchers and lawmakers struggle to enact meaningful reforms in public secondary education, XQ &mdash; launched by Lauren Powell Jobs, widow of Apple executive Steve Jobs &mdash; believes the answer can be crowd-sourced. (<em>The New York Times</em>)</span></p>
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$50 Million Competition to Design Revamped High School

Madlin Mekelburg, The Texas Tribune
September 16, 2015

The school reform initiative XQ: The Super School Project is calling on teams of educators and students to submit design plans for a revamped high school. While researchers and lawmakers struggle to enact meaningful reforms in public secondary education, XQ — launched by Lauren Powell Jobs, widow of Apple executive Steve Jobs — believes the answer can be crowd-sourced. (The New York Times)

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The school reform initiative XQ: The Super School Project is calling on teams of educators and students to submit design plans for a revamped high school. While researchers and lawmakers struggle to enact meaningful reforms in public secondary education, XQ — launched by Lauren Powell Jobs, widow of Apple executive Steve Jobs — believes the answer can be crowd-sourced. (The New York Times)

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Madlin Mekelburg was a reporting fellow for the Tribune in 2015 and 2016. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied journalism and French. Madlin previously worked at the... More by Madlin Mekelburg

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