NEW YORK, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The George Lucas Educational Foundation launches Edutopia, a new magazine for a new world of learning. Serving as a catalyst for change in education, the publication's editorial will showcase the best and most innovative thinking in education, profile the sharpest minds, reveal ways around roadblocks, and question the status quo.

Edutopia is the first magazine launch for Lucas and for the foundation, which was founded in 1991 to chronicle innovative practices in education. One of the legends of American cinema, Lucas, whose films includes Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and American Graffiti, is passionate about changing the way we educate our nation's youth. Just as he envisioned new intergalactic worlds 30 years ago, today he envisions a new world of learning and a change in society's beliefs about education....