To support a new network of politically moderate advocates and influencers who will coalesce around a policy agenda that prioritizes a student-centered approach to economic mobility
To advance community-driven educational change in Catalytic Communities and to research and publish a national report to identify the practices in schools that change students' academic trajectories
To support the provision of loans to nonprofit organizations that are developing high-quality instructional materials for K-12 students and/or providing aligned supports to teachers and school districts to effectively implement curricula and other educational resources in order to improve student outcomes
2022
Education
$5,000,000
Brookings Institution
To support a suite of research studies examining the relationships between educational interventions and economic mobility
Arizona State University Foundation for A New American University
To support the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), housed within Arizona State University's (ASU) Mary Lou Fulton College of Education, to execute multi-year research and thought leadership projects and to design and run a new innovative grants program
To organize and host a national convening to highlight and share promising practices and common pain points with implementing new competency-based and student-centered assessment systems
To manage a new grant program focused on solutions that better connect families and learners to innovative education options and learning experiences that offer greater value and flexibility
To explore how communities and states can create ecosystems where learning does not just happen at school and develop a strategy to raise, organize and direct the kind of significant funding that will be necessary to fund new ways of organizing, supporting and credentialing learning
To manage a new competition for funding to surface assessment solutions that provide families and caregivers with more truthful, meaningful and actionable information about their child's education