John Abbott is worried about our children and our future.
But the president of the 21st Century Learning Initiative is an optimist, and part of his power for change in the way communities view education is his contagious enthusiasm, and emerging optimism that says communities have the knowledge, the power and technology to use the human capacity for learning to transform the world.
This article first appeared in the March 21, 1999 Winona (Minnesota) Daily News.
