The XQ Institute, an Oakland, Calif.-based nonprofit will grant D.C. schools up to $25 million to give each of the city’s 15 high schools the opportunity to improve the experience.
“Our young people are usually the ones that are exploited when they go out into the workforce, and land into minimum wage jobs and land in different types of choices that don’t afford them the type of liberation that comes from being financially independent,” Mola said. Cardozo students are predominantly Black and Hispanic, and about two-thirds of the population is considered at risk,
Students — along with parents, teachers and community members — at both schools have spent the past seven months thinking about these issues and brainstorming solutions. Now, they will have the chance to pilot their ideas. The XQ Institute, an Oakland, Calif.-based nonprofit that helps communities redesign their schools, will grant D.C. schools up to $25 million over five years — with the goal of giving each of the city’s 15 public high schools the opportunity to improve the experience.
“Our students, they were like, ‘Look, we want more hands-on experience.’ The other thing that they shared with us is, ‘We love our iPads, we love your technology. We want to be able to incorporate that into our learning,’ ” Smith added. “With the metaverse, you get to see things from a different angle, you’re no longer constrained by the classroom. So you could be reading ‘Song of Solomon’ and be able to travel to the Gullah islands using virtual reality.
The schools that were not selected will spend the next several months refining their ideas before having the chance to join the next cohort.
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