Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine have taken their ‘Defiant Ones’ partnership into the classroom with the opening of a new high school in Inglewood, California.
The powerhouse executive, minus the good Doctor, showed up in Inglewood on Monday (August 12) to kick off the Iovine and Young Center Integrated Design, Technology, and Entrepreneurship Magnet, which will open next year.
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The school, which will initially be open just to ninth graders but will expand all the way up to twelfth grade within several years, is part of the Inglewood Unified School District, which issued a statement about it to Fox 11.
“The center is designed to reshape the high school experience through an innovative education model that combines a rigorous interdisciplinary curriculum with real-world, team-based learning opportunities,” the statement read.
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“This IYC initiative is set to amplify Inglewood Unified School District’s focus on creating innovative and exciting pathways for high school students.”
Iovine told the station: “We believe that this will differentiate them in the workforce and colleges. To go out and say you have an education in disciplinary learning, being able to collaborate with different disciplines and innovate is an advantage.”
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The Center will be located on the campus of a middle school set to close in June of next year, according to the L.A. Times. Four other schools in the district will shut down by the time Dre and Iovine’s school opens up.
The Inglewood school is far from Iovine and Dre’s only entry into education. They have another high school elsewhere in L.A., as well as a learning center in Atlanta.
For the ATL project, the duo partnered with Atlanta Public Schools.
Opening at the Frederick Douglass High School in Atlanta this upcoming school year, the Iovine and Young Center will initially be offered to students in the school’s 9th Grade STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) Academy.
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Students enrolled in the program will get the opportunity to “explore diverse disciplines, businesses, and industries to bring solutions to the problems surrounding these areas.”
At the end, students will be able to collaborate and create pitches for their innovations that challenge real-world problems.
