Achieve
For A Communications Strategy To Help Build Public Awareness About New State K-12 Assessments
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Amount$400,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/20/2011
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Term24 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
Achieve, the managing partner for one of the two state assessment consortia, received a $350,000 Foundation grant in March to develop prototypes of tests that measure deeper learning. Achieve now seeks support for state and national communications teams to educate parents, educators, the media, and the public about the benefits of replacing current testing systems with this next generation of assessments.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.achieve.org
Address
1919 M Street, NW, Suite 450, Washington, DC, 20036, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for support of state adoptions of OER materials
Achieve plans to work with a set of states to support training in OER tools and guidelines developed under a previous grant. The project also intends to merge its work with the EQuIP project to support states as they move toward adoption of next-generation digital resources.
for developing instructional materials and new state assessments
For developing instructional materials and new state assessments.
for a 22-state initiative to evaluate alignment of instructional materials to the Common Core
This national leader in standards-based school reform proposes to expand its work with states in support of the Common Core. With this grant, Achieve would drive the educational marketplace to make high-quality instructional materials widely available as OER, advancing our goal of improving the quality of curricular materials.
