The American education system is due for a refresh. We've all seen the photographs of "then" and "now," showing students sitting in the same configuration of desks as their parents and grandparents, subjected to the same unevolved school experience that's been served up for decades. What emerged from the Cold War -- an automated, industrialized, top-down approach to teaching and learning -- is opposite the inventive, progressive environments we embrace in all other facets of life from busines...