Microsoft YouthSpark Connection Addresses the Youth Opportunity Divide in Washington, D.C.

This week, Microsoft’s Washington, D.C. Innovation and Policy Center partnered with the Brookings Institution to host a YouthSpark Connection event. With more than 100 DC area educators, community leaders and students in attendance, the event focused on ways to empower local youth to achieve success in education, employment and entrepreneurship. To kick-off the event, Martha Ross of the Brookings Institution unveiled new research that illustrated the opportunity divide facing young people...(read more)