Kauffman Foundation to bring in educators for entrepreneurial boot camp

Applicants from across the country have a wide range of ideas, including new models for covering college costs, technological applications, innovations in career counseling, ideas for preparing students for environmentally green jobs and new ways for teaching foreign languages and music.

By name, it’s a laboratory.

It’s the place where the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation intends to bring some of the nation’s top education innovators to work with an elite slate of mentors, creating startup companies and concepts that will change the way children learn.

Bo Fishback calls it something simpler.

“It’s a sandbox,” said Fishback, Kauffman’s vice president for entrepreneurship.

By JOE ROBERTSON
The Kansas City Star

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