Achieve

For A Twenty-state Initiative To Evaluate Alignment Of Instructional Materials To The Common Core

Amount

$500,000
Program

Education
Date Awarded

7/17/2012
Term

12.0 Months
Type of Support

Project

Strategies

K-12 Teaching and Learning

Overview

Building on earlier Hewlett Foundation support, Achieve proposes to work with twenty states to support the development, adoption, and use of high-quality instructional materials based on the Common Core. States will identify existing materials to serve as models of instruction, adopt quality standards, and influence processes for state adoption of new instructional materials.

About the Grantee

Grantee Website

www.achieve.org

Address

1919 M Street, NW, Suite 450, Washington, DC, 20036, United States

Grants to this Grantee

Apr 30, 2001

$2,400,000

for a project entitled Defining the Twenty-first Century New Basic Skills - Aligning the New Economy High Skill Needs with High School Academic Standards

All Grants to this Grantee

Jul 11, 2016

$1,000,000

for development of tools and capacity to undertake external reviews of state assessments

Achieve is an independent, nonpartisan education reform organization dedicated to working with states to raise academic standards and graduation requirements, improve assessments, and strengthen accountability. States adopting new college- and career-ready assessments of student achievement will work voluntarily with Achieve to "test the test" by gauging alignment to state standards, quality of content, and depth of cognitive demand. Ensuring that measurement of deeper learning outcomes is accurate, useful, and widespread will require states to adopt high-quality assessment systems rather than choose them primarily on the basis of price or test duration.

All Grants to this Grantee

May 9, 2016

$100,000

for organizational capacity building

All Grants to this Grantee