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Project Title
For the digitization of the archives of the Bureau of Municipal Research/ Institute of Public Administration and Luther H. Gulick III Papers
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
In 2009, the Newman Library of Baruch College obtained 710 boxes of archival materials from the Bureau of Municipal Research (BMR) and Institute of Public Administration (IPA), the organizations which created the science of municipal government and professional training for civic leaders in the early 20th century. Andrew Carnegie was one of the original funders of the BMR, which later became the IPA. The collection includes files, maps, and publications spanning the years 1906-2002. In 2014, Carnegie Corporation provided funding in support phase one of the project which included inventorying, rehousing the materials in archival folders, and producing a finding aid for researchers and scholars. The Corporation provided a second grant in 2015 for the digitization of over 30,000 pages of archival materials spanning the 1920s through the 1950s. With additional Corporation support, Baruch College plans to digitize the collection materials from 1906-1919, which includes rare reports on policing, education, welfare, health, housing and transportation in municipalities across the nation, showing the origins of Progressivism and the development of reform government in the United States.
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As a final grant for educational initiatives including programming for the current exhibition, Anti-Semitism 1919–1939
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1804, New-York Historical Society (NYHS) is the oldest museum in New York City and one of America’s pre-eminent cultural institutions, dedicated to fostering research, presenting history and art exhibitions, and public programs that reveal the dynamism of history and its influence on the world of today. The New-York Historical Society has a mission to explore the richly layered political, cultural and social history of New York City and state and the nation. It also serves as a national forum for the discussion of issues surrounding the making and meaning of history. With Carnegie Corporation Support, the NYHS will continue to partner with the New York City Department of Education in order to provide programming through an object-based, inquiry driven approach to history learning.
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A one-time grant for university scholarships for women and an annual meeting of women peacebuilders
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
36 months
Description
Women play often unrecognized roles in building peace and contributing to their countries’ development. Leymah Gbowee, 2011 Nobel Laureate, set up the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa to ensure that women and youth receive the support they need to become socially and politically active, make decisions, and shape policies. This grant will provide seventeen women annually with scholarships to study at Liberian universities. It will also support the costs of twenty-two women—drawn from civil society organizations, government ministries and agencies, academic institutions, and international organizations—to participate in an annual meeting of women in peacebuilding in West and Central Africa. The focus countries are Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.
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For support of the planning and execution of National Math Festival 2017
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute’s (MSRI) National Math Festival aims to change the perception of mathematics among all age groups and celebrate the beauty and fundamental importance of mathematics to people’s lives. The 2017 National Math Festival will include approximately 40 lectures and dozens of hands-on activities and performances for an audience of 30,000 adults and children in Washington, D.C. In addition, MSRI will engage an even greater audience through social media, the festival website, and satellite events and activities in science museums across the country. With Corporation support, MSRI launched the first ever National Math Festival in 2015, which attracted over 20,000 people and fostered positive impressions of math that were sustained over time. This year, the Corporation’s support of MSRI will enable MSRI to plan, develop, and implement the programming of the 2017 National Math Festival for an even larger audience.
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For the Science and Society Program
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
60 months
Description
The Carnegie Institution of Washington (Carnegie Science), established by Andrew Carnegie in 1902, is a prominent scientific research institution with a unique mission and structure. Carnegie scientists are leaders in their respective fields of endeavor, including: astronomy, planetary science, earth science, high pressure physics, origins of life research, environmental science and ecology, plant biology, and molecular biology. With Corporation support, Carnegie Science through, its Science and Society program, will facilitate meaningful communication between Carnegie’s scientific community and the private and public sectors for the purpose and concerns of society at large, demonstrating the need to coalesce around important and complex societal issues including handling geophysical hazards caused by natural disasters, climate change and conflict, and the origins of life.
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For the development and piloting of an interactive college search support tool to help students and parents navigate the college admissions process.
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
In schools across the country, students are failing to receive the individualized counseling services that are necessary to guide them through the daunting process of college admissions and matriculation. This problem is particularly pronounced in low-income communities, leading many high-achieving, low-income students to “under-match”—they apply to and attend schools that are not commensurate with their academic needs and abilities, thereby widening the achievement gap at the postsecondary level. To set these students up for postsecondary success, they need access to information and personalized, comprehensive advising. In partnership with IBM’s Watson and the College Board, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation will address this need through the development of an interactive college search support tool and website that will help students and their parents navigate the college admissions process from inquiry through matriculation. This grant will support the first phase of this project, focusing on the development and piloting of the interactive college advisory tool: Chatbot.
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For support for the Carnegie Hall Digital Archives Project
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Since it opened in 1891, Carnegie Hall has hosted more than 52,000 events featuring a myriad of performers, ranging from Louis Armstrong to Ella Fitzgerald, Joan Baez, Judy Garland, Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma, and Jay-Z. To preserve its legacy for future generations, in 1986 Carnegie Hall established a permanent repository for its historically significant records. However, many of Carnegie Hall’s archival materials—including photographs, program books, flyers, posters, correspondence, and recordings—are available only on paper or in outdated media formats. In 2012, the Corporation awarded a $1,000,000 grant to enable Carnegie Hall to preserve and digitize its rich and varied archives through the year 1967, and make them available online to both scholars and the general public. With renewed support from the Corporation, Carnegie Hall will organize, conserve, digitize, store, and make available to the public its collections from 1967-1986.
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For a project examining the role of African-led peacebuilding missions
Date
Dec. 08, 2016
Duration
31 months
Description
After the end of the Cold War, the United Nations (UN), the United States, and European countries conducted multiple peacebuilding missions in Africa. With partial support from the Corporation, these missions were chronicled in three RAND Corporation (RAND)-authored volumes that provided a comprehensive review of these missions with one important exception—the increasing role of African countries and institutions in this field. Based heavily on the experiences of the 1990s, these volumes tended to be rather skeptical of early African-led efforts. However, in light of the developments during the last decade, a new volume to this important series is needed to allow for a fresh look at more recent African-led efforts, which have become more prevalent, more professional, and sometimes more successful, despite often operating in areas and under conditions that have discouraged intervention by the United States, Europe, and even the UN.
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For research that advances understanding of teacher and leadership preparation practices that support deeper learning for diverse learners
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
As K-12 education shifts away from an emphasis on rote learning and standardization toward more personalized, experiential and deeper learning, teacher and leader preparation programs need to evolve to ensure that educators are learning new pedagogies and instructional strategies and developing the skills, knowledge and dispositions they need to support deeper learning for all students. The Learning Policy Institute (LPI) is a new independent, nonpartisan organization led by Linda Darling-Hammond that conducts and communicates research to policymakers at all levels, connecting them with the evidence, ideas, and actions needed to strengthen the education system and improve learning for all students. This grant supports two LPI research studies that explore how teachers and leaders are prepared to teach and lead for deeper learning for diverse students, including which strategies, structures and supports are most promising.
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For a comprehensive examination of nuclear weapons and Russian-North Korean relations
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
21 months
Description
This grant will allow the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), in cooperation with the Vladivostok-based, Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), to conduct a comprehensive examination of Russian-North Korean relations, focusing on avenues of potential Russian influence on the Kim regime’s nuclear weapons policy. In addition to American experts, the research team includes established scholars from FEFU, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Kookmin University, and the Institute of Far Eastern Studies with well-established links to North Korea. The project will convene an initial workshop in Vladivostok to hone in on research questions, and a second workshop in Washington D.C. to report on research findings and assess the implications for U.S. and Russian policies. A final report in English and in Russian will be reviewed by an advisory board chaired by Paul Bracken of Yale University, consisting of a number of scholars and former diplomats, before dissemination to policy communities in both countries.
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For support for the project titled, "Expanding and Leveraging the Student Achievement Measure"
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Meaningful graduation rates are critical to assessing and improving higher education. The Department of Education has tracked those rates since 1988. However, the data collected is limited to the graduation rates of first-time, full-time students who enter and graduate from a single institution. Given the increasing mobility of the country’s student population, it is no longer typical to matriculate to and graduate from one institution. In 2013, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) launched Student Achievement Measure (SAM) as an alternative to the federal method of measuring graduation rates. SAM is a more accurate measurement system that tracks student movement across institutions and sectors to demonstrate each institution’s contribution to a student’s progress and educational attainment. With renewed Corporation support, APLU will expand SAM models and infrastructure and continue outreach, promotion, and coalition-building.
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For analysis and dissemination of research on parent aspirations for their children's education
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
4 months
Description
Research has demonstrated that higher levels of parental involvement in their children’s education are significantly related to children’s social and emotional development, academic success, and long-term life prospects, with a particularly strong effect for children living in poverty. However, family engagement remains low, particularly in low- income and urban areas. LIFT, a national nonprofit organization, helps families with young children break the cycle of poverty. They work directly with families to empower parents to become their own advocates, and in an effort to better understand what parents need, they recently completed the first phase of a community listening tour. With Corporation support, they hope to develop a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the factors preventing parents from fully engaging with their children’s education by conducting a thorough analysis of their research thus far and producing five in-depth profiles of LIFT parents and families from across the national network, with the long-term goal of informing more responsive policies and programs.
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For general support and project support for education reporting
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
National Public Radio’s (NPR) balanced reporting, analysis, and commentary reach the largest audience of any American noncommercial news outlet and a particularly influential portion of the American public. Since their beginning more than forty years ago, NPR has been committed to covering the education trends and challenges facing the nation. Renewed support from the Corporation will add value to NPR by providing the news organization with needed resources to leverage its recently enhanced capacity to partner with member stations on local and national coverage of education and immigration issues and international peace and security concerns. NPR will produce in-depth education news coverage that goes beyond the rhetoric surrounding policy and politics. NPR will create informed understanding and conversations about education reform among NPR’s tens of millions of listeners and Web users.
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For a forum on the future of immigrants and America
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
13 months
Description
The Jack Kemp Foundation, following in the leadership style of former Senator Jack Kemp, offers unique solutions-oriented approaches to policy discussions and challenges. The foundation has a successful track record of convening policymakers, academics, advocates, and community leaders from across the political spectrum to debate and discuss ideas in ways that speak to what unites the country rather than what divides it. With Corporation support, the Kemp Foundation will convene conservative and moderate policymakers and academics, as well as law enforcement and business leaders, for the Kemp Forum on Immigration. The forum, which will be held in Florida in the fall, will focus on positive policy solutions to both national and regional immigration issues.
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For expansion and customization of the Pipeline Interactive Visualization Tool (PIVoT) to inform state policy decision-making across education, health and family economics.
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
10 months
Description
Historically, the separated nature of state agencies, a lack of interoperability among data systems, and the challenge of collecting comparable data across states has created a data-rich but information-poor environment for governors, yielding messy systems that translate to a lack of coherence in the district, school, and classroom—and confusion or even complete lack of access for children and families. The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) seeks to assist governors, their staffs, and senior agency officials to leverage key data points from across the birth-through-workforce pipeline to inform policy decisions. They have developed the Pipeline Interactive Visualization Tool (PIVoT) using publically available data for all fifty states across thirty indicators in education, health and family economics. With the support of this grant, NGA Center will optimize and expand the tool to include customized data points (such as student debt loads and rates) for individual states.
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For expanding and enriching the study of Russia in the social sciences at Indiana University
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
36 months
Description
To advance long-term relations between the United States and Russia and improve knowledge about Russian society in the United States, the Corporation launched an initiative to strengthen the study of Russia at U.S. universities. One of the projects recommended is this grant to Indiana University (Indiana). Already a leader in international research and training for Russian studies, Indiana now will function as an incubator, training center, and hub of knowledge production on contemporary Russia. It will build a research collective and renovate the model of regional studies; hold brainstorming sessions to explore ways to understand emerging events in Russian society, politics, and economics; and design programming around new modes of writing. Indiana will work to build a regional studies toolkit, with language, historical knowledge, and professional networks.
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For expanding and enriching the study of Russia in the social sciences at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
To advance long-term relations between the United States and Russia and improve knowledge about Russian society in the United States, the Corporation launched an initiative to strengthen the study of Russia and nurture informed and deeply grounded Russia experts at select U.S. universities. This grant will allow the University of Wisconsin, Madison (UWM) to serve as a hub for Ph.D. training in Russian studies and foster collaboration between U.S. and Russia-based scholars. UWM has a strong base of social science faculty whose research features a deep and broad engagement with Russia. By bringing together scholars at difference stages of their careers, and with different backgrounds, it will create extensive, professional networks of faculty, and connect UWM and Ph.D. students and their equivalents in Russia to collaborate across disciplinary and methodological lines.
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For expanding and enriching the study of Russia in the social sciences at Columbia University
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
36 months
Description
To advance long-term relations between the United States and Russia and improve knowledge about Russian society in the United States, the Corporation launched an initiative to strengthen the study of Russia at U.S. universities. One of the projects recommended is this grant to the Harriman Institute at Columbia University (Harriman). Harriman proposes an intensive two-year program of seven activities and projects that will enrich and expand the study of Russia across the social sciences at Columbia and the greater New York academic community. The project will bring together graduate students from the New York area and Moscow’s Higher School of Economics to discuss their academic research in progress. This program will focus on research in progress and be open to graduate students at all stages in their careers, thereby accelerating their introduction to research.
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For support to conduct a strategic planning initiative
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
6 months
Description
Digital Promise, a leader in education technology and innovation, works with educators, technologists, researchers, and leading thinkers to spur research and development to improve education. A Corporation grantee since it launched in 2011, Digital Promise has expanded to support a suite of eight initiatives, including the League of Innovative Schools focused on advancing digital transformation in K-12 education and educator micro-credentials, which advances competency-based learning for educators. This grant supports Digital Promise to develop a strategic plan to refine its goals and vision and serve as a framework through which to make decisions and allocate resources as it continues to deepen and expand its initiatives and impact.
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For codification and communication of best practices in 9-14 school design, especially around curriculum alignment and skills mapping
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
According to the most recent National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) data, only 37 percent of high school seniors graduate “college ready,” a statistic which is even lower in high need, urban communities. The Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) 9-14 model seeks to prepare students for college and career success through programming that places high school students in college and careers as early as possible. P-TECH offers students the opportunity to pursue six years of college-aligned curriculum and obtain an Associates Degree, and the model provides pathways to paid internships and employment during and after high school. Key to the success of this model are the high school, college, and employer collaborations on skills mapping and curriculum alignment, which ensure that students are prepared for their college coursework and careers. The Public Policy Institute of New York State (PPI) has a leading role in assuring strong partnerships, codifying elements of the model, and developing policies to support the work. With support from Carnegie, PPI will identify effective instructional practices that prepare high school students for success in credit-bearing college courses, and create a guide for practitioners and school leaders.
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For public education and outreach on the 2020 Census
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
18 months
Description
The decennial census of the United States requires a 10-year cycle of funding. But national decision makers often place a very low priority on this activity until the census looms at the end of each decade. Drawing from two decades of involvement in census issues, The Census Project, coordinated by the Communications Consortium Media Center, brings together more than 600 data-user organizations including businesses, state and local governments, labor unions, civil rights organizations, child advocacy groups, educational institutions and other groups that rely on the Census Bureau for vital information related to their work and that of the U.S. Government. In an effort to advocate for a fair and accurate 2020 Census and support for the American Community Survey (ACS), Corporation support will be used toward communications, polling, and public outreach.
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For preliminary work to prepare for a large-scale, rigorous evaluation of the Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) 9-14 model
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
The Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) 9-14 model is designed to better prepare high school students for college and career through early exposure to college coursework, career opportunities, and college- and career-aligned curriculum, giving high school students the opportunity to earn an Associate’s degree and participate in internship and job opportunities both during and after high school. Founded in 2011, this model has rapidly scaled to now consist of over 30 schools in New York State, with plans to open more schools across the country. This rapid scale-up has occurred despite lack of rigorous research evidence supporting the efficacy of the P-TECH model in addressing educational outcomes for students. MDRC, a social policy research organization with over forty years of experience conducting rigorous studies for a wide audience, proposes to conduct a large-scale, rigorous evaluation of the P-TECH 9-14 model. With Corporation support, MDRC will continue to collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative data in preparation to competitively bid on a large-scale evaluation of the P-TECH 9-14 model.
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For its Homeland Security Project
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
17 months
Description
The Bipartisan Policy Center’s (BPC) Homeland Security Project has as a core mission to be an active, bipartisan voice on homeland and national security issues. With terrorist threats and tactics becoming more complex and diverse, the project facilitates expert analysis and develop proactive policy solutions on how to best respond to emerging security challenges. Under the leadership of the former chairmen of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States (commonly known as the 9/11 Commission), former Governor Thomas Kean and former Congressman Lee Hamilton, the Homeland Security Project includes a bipartisan group of national security, terrorism, and intelligence experts. With Corporation support, the Homeland Security Project will educate and engage policymakers and the public on a range of national security issues.
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For the implementation and expansion of a mobile citizenship application platform
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Created by the Immigration Advocates Network based at Pro Bono Net, Citizenshipworks is a naturalization platform that connects immigrants to the right type of legal assistance: whether it is through an interactive interview, virtual legal services, or connection to the nearest in-person legal provider. It is a new type of legal service that brings together innovative technology with a network of nonprofit organizations to reduce gaps in access to justice and make the complex process of naturalization accessible and safe for everyone. With Corporation support, Pro Bono Net, a member of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center’s New Americans Campaign (NAC), will roll out Citizenshipworks 2.0, providing assistance to other NAC members as well as organizations outside of the campaign using the software.
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For the Queens 20/20 project, developing a community-based Parent University.
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
A 2011 study by the National Foundation for American Policy found that “immigrant parents place a heavy emphasis on education, particularly in math and science, viewing this as a path to success in America.” However, immigrant communities are most likely to be under-resourced in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) after-school enrichment opportunities. The New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) has launched a new initiative called Queens 20/20 in the heavily immigrant community of Corona to build a rich ecosystem of opportunity for young people, families and educators in creative STEM learning. Through a new initiative called Parent University, NYSCI will engage local parents, parent associations, Parent Coordinators and schools, and other partner organizations to develop a scope and sequence for parent resources and to provide Family STEM Career Nights and a ‘Feria de Ciencia’, a festival featuring the scientific and technologic achievements of Latin America and Latinos.
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For a project to understand and address the challenges associated with integration of personalized and project-based pedagogies through the identification of best practices within the New Tech Network and design of technology-based resources and
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
7 months
Description
To prepare students for success in life, college, and the careers of tomorrow, they need access to student-centered, rigorous learning experiences that enable the development of 21st century knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Personalized and project-based learning are two instructional pedagogies that can enable student success, but significant challenges face teachers seeking to simultaneously operationalize personalized and project-based learning. New Tech Network (NTN) partners with schools to better support students and teachers with a proven K-12 model, a project-based learning platform, and powerful professional development. With Carnegie support, they will continue to innovate and iterate upon their model through the development of a personalized project-based approach to teaching and learning. In this project, NTN will 1) develop a more robust understanding of challenges to operationalizing an integrated approach, and 2) identify best practices from within the New Tech Network and conceptualize technology-based tools that can help teachers better manage the processes of designing and facilitating personalized project-based learning.
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For support for displaced students
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
62 months
Description
With the current crisis in Syria stretching into its sixth year, the Institute of International Education (IIE) continues to work collaboratively to reach students whose education has been disrupted or delayed, getting them back into school and building a pathway to a better future. In addition to those whom IIE is already helping, their aim is to support an additional 200 students over two years to continue or complete their studies through IIE’s Emergency Student Fund in support of Syrian higher education. This grant covers approximately twenty-seven one-year fellowships. In addition to distributing the funds, IIE identifies universities around the world that will host and support students and coordinates the outreach, recruitment, and selection of students using independent panels of experts. IIE will also maintain and enhance relationships with the universities in the U.S. and overseas, and oversee monitoring.
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For a project to expand Urban Advantage Denver and develop a sustainable model
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
7 months
Description
Founded in 1900, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science is a leading source of informal education in science as well a leader in scientific research across numerous fields of study. Since 2010, the Museum, in collaboration with Denver Public Schools, Denver Zoo, and Denver Botanic Gardens, has engaged seventh grade students from low-income families and communities of color in science education through the Urban Advantage (UA) Denver program. Through UA Denver, the partner institutions support teacher professional development and hands-on, student-driven science investigations, that focus on enhancing the ability of teachers’ to provide quality science education; ensuring all students have opportunities to learn science process skills critical to college and career success; and connecting learning in schools with science experiences in informal settings. This grant supports the museum to undertake planning work with its partners to expand the program to serve all grades sixth through eighth and develop a sustainable implementation model.
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For a project to update science resources for middle and high school to align with the Next Generation Science Standards
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
36 months
Description
The Board on Science Education (BOSE) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine provides guidance to the nation on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. The primary goals are to improve government decision-making and public policy, increase public understanding, and promote the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge in matters involving science education. BOSE proposes to convene an expert committee to revise the 2006 report America’s Lab Report to reflect current research on science investigations and engineering design problems, including innovations in instructional approaches such as computing and access to large data sets used in teaching and student learning, and to align the updated report with recent reforms in K-12 science education. The final report will provide recommendations for designing middle and high school science investigations and engineering design problems so that they align with the vision of science education embodied in the Framework for K-12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
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For the development of tools and processes to advance understanding and implementation of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
10 months
Description
Established in 1958 by a grant from the National Science Foundation, the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) has a long history of developing materials and services, and conducting educational research and evaluation. In order to implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), teachers and leaders require resources to help them understand the standards and high quality instructional materials that support this new approach to teaching and learning. This grant supports BSCS to develop and leverage tools and processes aimed at helping school and district educators to understand the NGSS and develop strategies to implement them, including resources on how to critically analyze instructional materials to ensure fidelity when planning for implementation.
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For reporting and dissemination on place-based education
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
While technology is often seen as the dominant enabler of personalized learning, a tech-centric focus overlooks other promising strategies that can also provide student with the tools and skills they need to collaborate, think critically and solve complex challenges. Place-Based Education (PBE) connects students to locally, regionally, and globally relevant experiences, unconstrained by access to technology, that build student skills through personalized learning and help build the foundation for democratic and sustainable communities. eduInnovation and its publishing partner Getting Smart aim to spread awareness of PBE as an entry point into personalized learning and to inspire wider implementation of PBE through a content and communications campaign. This grant will support a blog series, podcasts, infographics, and actionable guides for implementing PBE for student learning and educator professional learning.
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For a project to develop a school improvement network in Los Angeles and strengthen higher ed-K-12 collaboration
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
45 months
Description
The Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) believes that improvement science can help unlock powerful knowledge that already exists within individual classrooms and schools and make it broadly useful across the urban schooling landscape. Improvement science harnesses homegrown expertise and innovations, and uses rapid cycles of prototyping and testing to guide the development and continued refinement of new tools, processes, roles, and relationships. In the proposed scope of work, UCLA will deepen its work with its burgeoning network of schools in Los Angeles through expertly facilitated network improvement cycles that will aggressively target problems of practice (such as the wraparound support strategies for English Language Learners), and surface, test, and share practices that have broader systemic application for schools nationwide.
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For a project to support school turnaround work, policy development, and dissemination activities
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Turning around failing schools has proven difficult. Yet, many schools require significant reform, and exist in places without the conditions for school closure and replacement. It is thus imperative that the field finds ways to improve extant schools and better serve the students in them. One organization that has shown promise in its approach to turning around failing schools is the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools (Partnership). It is currently one of the largest urban school turnaround organizations in the country, directly managing seventeen public schools serving nearly 15,000 students in LAUSD. During the grant period, the Partnership will 1) continue to advance its school transformation work, working to improve the academic achievement of students in some of Los Angeles’ highest-need schools, and 2) codify its in-district school turnaround successes through a case study that will inform the work of communities across the country that seek to transform historically under-performing schools.
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For a professional development program for teachers to support implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
17 months
Description
In October 2013, the Corporation awarded the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) a grant to help professional development providers working with teachers to adapt existing science curriculum and classroom assessments to better align with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), by designing teaching tools and a professional development process to learn how to use them. As part of that project, AMNH successfully developed, piloted, and field tested “Five Tools and Processes,” a professional development curriculum designed to support teachers in implementing the NGSS in the classroom and now available online. This grant provides support for a follow-on project that looks at whether the intensive professional development experience using these tools and processes increases teachers’ understanding of the NGSS and supports them in creating effective lessons and classroom assessments.
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For a project to develop a digital platform and infrastructure to transform the RePublic high school model into a more personalized, adaptive academic experience
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
15 months
Description
In order to prepare all students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need to be active participants in a robust democracy and to be successful in the global economy, schools need to be redesigned to better serve students and teachers. RePublic Schools was founded in order to reimagine education for underserved students in Nashville, TN and across the American South, where entrenched, systemic, and historic inequity magnifies the problem of race, socio-economic status, and zip code being the primary determinants of a child’s life outcomes. Over the past three years, RePublic has developed a singularly comprehensive expertise in the creation of computer science curriculum and in training teachers with no prior programming experience to learn alongside scholars. RePublic now seeks to redesign their high school model to personalize students’ experiences so that they can take ownership of their own learning and be better prepared for postsecondary success. With Corporation support, RePublic will build a personalized team to develop and implement a digital personalized learning model for RePublic High School.
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For the University of Baltimore's Langsdale Library
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
The University of Baltimore aims to provide high-quality education to students for whom an advanced degree might otherwise be out of reach, such as working adults and first-generation college students. The University’s Langsdale Library is an integral part of this mission. The library provides students with a place to gather and study, as well as the educational tools they need to learn and grow. However, in recent decades, the way students access and use the library’s resources has changed dramatically. For example, the acquisition of e-books and e-journals at the library has increased 50 percent over the past few years. The library plans to renovate its facility and collections to better meet the needs of its students. With renewed Corporation support, the Langsdale Library will continue its important work of supporting the teaching, learning, research, and information needs of the university and the Baltimore community through its resources, services, and instruction.
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For developing alternative indicators to measure local perceptions of progress towards peacebuilding and statebuilding in Africa
Date
Dec. 08, 2016
Duration
72 months
Description
Most peacebuilding indicators are based on aggregate data that bear little relation to the everyday life experiences of individuals and households in societies emerging from violent conflict. Building on its initial Corporation-supported work, the George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution’s (SCAR’s) Everyday Peace Indicators (EPI) project aims to continue gathering better quality information, based on indicators chosen by communities themselves, and to feed this into policy processes. In partnership with the University of Manchester (Manchester), the project will also work closely with on-site partners in South Africa, Uganda, and Colombia. In addition, the second phase of the project will identify the most effective channels for disseminating and distributing the data it collects, as well as investigate more closely how the EPI system can complement existing peacebuilding indices.
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For responding to crises and helping youth thrive
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
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Mercy Corps will deliver support (training, counseling, psychosocial support activities) to 10,000 refugee and migrant youth (age 15-24) in Greece and Turkey to enhance their social and emotional well-being, learning, and/or employability skills and knowledge.This grant will leverage Mercy Corps’ program platform and local partnerships, and facilitate collaboration with local and international NGOs, government entities and the private sector to provide a flexible set of content, learning activities and training of caregivers to support youth in positive and productive ways. Mercy Corps will focus on addressing refugee youth’s emotional and social well-being, educational needs, and equip them with the employability and transferable skills that will prepare them for future livelihoods.
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For convening and activating a statewide accountability coalition in New York
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
6 months
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The recently passed Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) asks each state to reset their goals and design new accountability systems, thereby offering equity-minded stakeholders in every state a chance to work together to create a system that focuses on quality for all students. The Education Trust–New York — which upon launch in mid-2016 will become The Education Trust’s third state office — plans to work in partnership with a diverse set of stakeholders in New York state, including civil rights, teacher/education, parent/community, and business organizations to leverage this opportunity. This grant supports the convening and activation of a statewide accountability coalition focused on equity. This place-based work is relevant in and of itself – New York serves 2.6 million K-12 students – and because as a bellwether state, New York’s accountability system can serve as a model for others.
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For the Teacher Project at the Columbia Journalism School
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
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Severe gaps in educational access and attainment correlated to economic and racial inequities persist from the earliest grades through college and graduate school for many Americans. Some of these gaps have structural roots, and informed and authentic reporting on the American education system—with an eye to giving voice to the voiceless—can help prod vital improvements and draw attention to these issues. The Teacher Project, an education journalism fellowship program at the Columbia Journalism School, contributes by reporting on American education with the goal of exposing inequity, telling the stories of under-covered issues about those who are most affected by education policies and change: teachers and families. The fellowship reporting is directed at both a general audience and education practitioners and policymakers, and the program has the additional goal of developing strong new young education journalists. This grant supports the 2017-18 cohort.
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For a poll of college students' experience in K-12 education and dissemination of findings
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
6 months
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Many students in underserved communities are graduating from high school, sometimes with very good grades, only to find that they do not meet the requirements for entry-level college courses. And yet their voices are often not included in the national conversation on this and other education reform issues. Students for Education Reform (SFER), founded by Alexis Morin as a college student in 2009, aims to amplify student voice by identifying and training college students in grassroots organizing to be able to advocate for educational reform in their communities. With the support of this grant, they propose conducting a poll of college-aged populations, focusing primarily on first-generation college students, related to their experiences in the K-12 system, with a focus on whether they feel that their education prepared them for success in college and careers.
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For implementing positive changes to the International Atomic Energy Agency Partnering Capacity
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
7 months
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has recently sought to engage the non-State donor community, including the private sector, but with little success so far. In 2014 the Corporation made a grant to Partnership for a Secure America (PSA) to convene a working group of experts to assess this challenge. The group included seventeen former ambassadors to the IAEA, former senior IAEA officials, and outside analysts from all of the regional groups recognized by the Agency to explore whether non-traditional donors could help address funding deficiencies in nuclear security and technical cooperation. This grant will allow PSA to conduct follow-on outreach activities to promote their findings, including briefings to key diplomatic missions to the IAEA, Agency leadership, staff, and select members of the media.
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For a project to increase Latino civic participation
Date
Dec. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
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With a population of more than 55 million, Latinos are the second largest ethnic group in the United States. Despite their size, Latinos are routinely ignored by political campaigns (a recent poll found that only 39 percent of Latino voters were contacted during the current campaign cycle) and continue to face barriers to full civic participation. The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund is one of the nation’s leading organizations supporting Latino civic engagement. With Corporation support, NALEO will increase Latino civic engagement with naturalization assistance, nonpartisan voter registration and mobilization, and a communications campaign to ensure an accurate 2020 Census.
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For a project to expand the adoption of personalized learning through the development and delivery of an enhanced instructional platform, and online professional learning resources
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
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In recent decades, the U.S. has made important advances in strengthening its public school system, as evidenced by record high graduation rates. Despite these gains, new approaches remain necessary in order ensure that all students are ready for the demands, and opportunity, of college and career. PowerMyLearning addresses this challenge by leveraging technology to transform classroom practice and strengthen the learning relationships among students, teachers, and families. Underlying this work is PowerMyLearning’s free web platform, launched in 2011 and now with users in over 40% of schools nationwide. The proposed project builds on PowerMyLearning’s established school-based partnership model and will enable the organization to 1) Enhance its predominantly in-person delivery model to make it more scalable within the organization’s operating regions, and 2) Begin to drive adoption of innovative learning designs nationwide through active partnerships and thought leadership.
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For a project to support the redesign of schools and the systems that support them (districts, non-profit organizations, e.g.) and, for continued development of tools, resources, and research that meet growing demand from States and districts for redesign
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Though we have isolated examples of schools with extraordinary results serving students coming from poverty, we have not yet brought this work to scale such that all students are prepared for college and career. To achieve change at scale, we need to shift how both systems and schools are organized. Education Resource Strategies (ERS) works with district, state, and school leaders to transform how urban schools and systems employ resources—people, time, and money—so that every school is designed and resourced to serve every student. The proposed project will build on ERS’ previous accomplishments through three core areas of work: 1) Enable transformational school and system redesign work by subsidizing deeper partnerships – with both schools and system leaders – with a targeted number of ‘tipping point’ school districts; 2) Create, improve, and expand tools and resources that can reach a broader audience of education reformers; and 3) Disseminate learning and build capacity among partner organizations to maximize knowledge sharing.
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For assessment and evaluation of the national LearnStorm initiative
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
30 months
Description
While advances in technology have enabled shifts to personalized, mastery-based learning in K-12 classrooms, broad adoption of these tools among the vast majority of teachers has been slow. In addition, schools most in need of innovative solutions and personalized learning are less likely to have teachers with the resources, exposure, or skills needed to make this shift. Khan Academy’s LearnStorm Challenge aims to provide teachers and students with low-risk, instant-value opportunities to try mastery-based learning through a competition that provides free online access to Common Core-aligned math content and incentivizes student progress, mastery and perseverance, with a particular focus on reaching low-income students. This grant supports learning and evaluation activities designed to gauge LearnStorm’s effect on student and teacher enrollment, engagement, persistence and retention in this mastery-based learning platform.
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For increasing public understanding of the value of education data and building capacity to ensure that the diversity of education stakeholders can employ data to improve the student experience.
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
While strides have been made in data infrastructure, and data exists that can help improve educational outcomes and personalize learning for students, a lack of understanding among key education stakeholders and a negative public perception inhibit the effective use of education data in service of student achievement. Data Quality Campaign (DQC) presents a systemic solution to these challenges, working to remove political and cultural barriers from the top down, and building capacity to implement data-driven change from the bottom up. With Corporation support, and building on past successes, DQC will: 1) Build public understanding around the value of education data; 2) Work to increase the number of states that share postsecondary and workforce outcome data with K-12 systems; and 3) Position the use of data as a key human capital strategy to improve educator quality and effectiveness.
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For support of a group of states to leverage Every Student Succeeds Act school improvement funding, to enact meaningful governance reform in low-performing schools
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
The new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) allows states to set aside up to 7 percent of their Title I funds for school improvement, providing an opportunity for states to take advantage of the new flexibility of these funds to make bold reforms that advance equity by improving opportunities for the most poorly served students, or, conversely, to continue with existing (often ineffective) strategies for school improvement. The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education policy think tank, seeks to build on previous Corporation-funded research on school governance by identifying and empowering a select group of states to utilize these funds to enact meaningful school governance reform, exploring options such as recovery school districts and charter replication. With the support of this grant, Fordham will convene a strategic group of state leaders, provide research and resources on school improvement, and support the development of state plans of action.
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For a project to identify and support a new generation of diverse social entrepreneurs with innovative solutions to improve K-12 educational outcomes in the United States
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
6 months
Description
Educational outcomes today indicate that students are not prepared for success in a global economy and participation in a robust democracy. This problem is even more pronounced among diverse student populations from low-income communities. There is an imperative to harness education innovation in service of developing new models, tools, and services for those students in particular, which will require transformational community-based leadership. Echoing Green is an organization that identifies, invests in, and forms a community of highly effective innovators to drive transformative positive social change across multiple issue areas. With Corporation support, Echoing Green will recruit a diverse talent pipeline of leaders capable of innovating in the K-12 education space.
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For developing a leadership framework for implementing the Next Generation Science Standards
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
13 months
Description
WestEd is a nonprofit research and development agency that provides high-quality services in education, health and human services, and justice settings. Through conducting research and development programs, projects, and evaluations; providing training and technical assistance; and working with policymakers and practitioners at state and local levels to carry out large-scale school improvement and change efforts, WestEd is able to effectively move research into practice. This grant supports the development of a leadership framework for science education and non-science education leaders who guide the efforts to improve science education and implement higher standards, including those laid out in the Next Generation Science Standards. The framework will provide practical guidance for state, regional, and local educators charged with leading the implementation of new standards.
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