Vote Today: Help Send New America Education Policy Program to SXSW EDU

Voting for panel presentations at SXSW EDU, an annual event promoting innovation and learning in education, is open—and New America’s Education Policy program needs your support to participate.

Listed below are details—and direct links—for each of our proposals submitted for community voting, allowing the public to review, vote on, and provide feedback on all ideas entered.

• build4good: Tech Internships for Social Change. Our build4good initiative matches and mentors a diversity of STEM students with internships in mission-driven nonprofits. To inspire future leaders who will develop tomorrow’s socially minded tech, vote here.
• The 1939 Library Sit-In & Today’s Fight for Access to Books. In 1939, five young Black Virginians faced arrest for conducting a peaceful library sit-in. To spotlight this story and spark ideas for educational equity via museums, libraries, and schools, vote here.
• The Power of Human-Centered Skills in the Age of AI. In an age of AI, kids will need skills in collaboration, creativity, and social interaction above all. To see how scientists collaborate with communication experts to unlock new ways for students to learn, vote here.

Additionally, Vice President for the Education Policy program, Kevin Carey, will join a panel with Brown’s Promise, an initiative working to end racial and economic segregation in K–12 schools. Panelists will discuss the ways that litigation can unlock stalled K–12 innovation while protecting students from innovation run amok in higher education.

• To support the Unprecedented: Tackling Education Issues Through Litigation panel, vote here.

Iris Palmer, our deputy director for community colleges, will also explore how the community college model can be retooled for a new era during a panel with Whiteboard Advisors, a consulting firm working to advance educational equity.

• To support the Remaking the Community College Model panel, vote here.

The voting deadline is Sunday, August 20, 2023. Please help make it possible for us to join you in the Lone Star State next spring!

Thank you for supporting our work to improve public education outcomes so that every student has the opportunity to thrive.