"It is difficult to mention his name without recognizing that Shane is blessed with one of the brightest and most instinctive political minds many of us have ever encountered."
-- Matt McKenna

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In an innocent moment of life clarity whose poignancy he can't yet understand my 4 year old left an admissions playdate today singing in a jazzy baritone "don't worry...about a thing...every little thing...is going to be alright."

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The global educational landscape is in a state of profound change. For countries to compete in the 21st century, they must have creative and innovative educational systems that are superbly preparing young people to be global citizens.

As politicians fret over competitiveness, businesses fear the shortage of future creative minds and parents worry about the world their children will inherit – we find ourselves at a major crossroad.

Take America, for example, which spends over $1.5 trillion dollars annually - both publically and privately - to educate its citizens and yet half of its kids don't graduate from high school, of the ones who do and who go to college nearly 25% of them aren't prepared to make it through the first year and for the first time in the history of America the next generation will be less literate than the previous one.

At the core of this crossroad is the most human of questions: are we doing enough for our children?

Are we making the right choices and the right investments in their growth and development?

What more can we be doing so that future generations thrive?

How do we best educate our children so they have what it takes to compete, succeed and be happy in a competitive global economy?

In a world that is flat and where global borders today are defined less by oceans and mountain ranges and increasingly more by the clicks of a mouse, families in every corner of the globe know that those who value ideas and who invest in the supplemental educational opportunities for their children to learn the skills to turn their ideas into reality will be the most competitive in the global marketplace.

Education - particularly K-12 education – is an emerging marketplace that is growing and thriving by meeting the educational needs that families and businesses no longer trust to just the public education system to meet. The industry is defined by three enticing realities:

  1. it is growing exponentially
  2. it is highly fragmented and
  3. there is constant demand.

For organizations and companies to succeed they must be driven to do what is right for the families who entrust them with the safety, growth, development and supplemental education of their children.

As the former president of the world’s leading youth leadership and experiential learning companies, a former government policy maker and the father of two children, Shane Hedges understands that great challenges call for great solutions carried out by bold people. This website is really dedicated to the people, newsmakers, entrepreneurs and policymakers who are making a commitment to education whether public or private, non-profit or for-profit.