21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."

"When we previously revisited them as young adults at age 21, we found that the children who had received the early educational intervention were more likely to go to college; now we know they were also more likely to make it all the way through and graduate."

Part of the grant’s purpose will be to change the way that science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) topics are traditionally taught in secondary schools.

"We attempt to understand how schools use data through the frequency of interim assessments, whether teachers meet with a school leader to discuss student data, how often teachers receive reports on student results, and how often data from interim assessments are used to adjust tutoring groups, assign remediation, modify instruction, or create individualized student goals."

It customises your average educational content to meet the unique needs of each student.

States and schools competing for federal funding would have to demonstrate plans to achieve several goals laid out by the White House, including: revamping their funding structure for higher education; aligning standards with K-12 programs so students can complete college on time; and maintaining adequate funding for public colleges and universities.

In a world where knowledge workers are more in demand than ever, students must be able to keep pace with the evolving technical needs of employers.

These breakthroughs come at a key time for U.S. education, which is under enormous pressure to innovate and provide better learning opportunities.

The children are not measured at all for the first six years of their education.

Numerous studies have highlighted the importance of U.S. students’ math achievement, and now math teachers have a new resource, aligned with the Common Core standards and available free of charge, that might help them teach abstract math lessons.

We seek to form partnerships with other nonprofit agencies and for-profit entities in a common quest to improve public education, and as part of the larger effort to bring families out of poverty.