America Achieves
For A Meeting To Help Districts Apply Personalized Learning To Achieve Deeper Learning Goals
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Amount$25,000
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Program
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Date Awarded2/26/2013
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Term3 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
America Achieves, a nationally-focused nonprofit, helps communities and states leverage policy, practice, and leadership to build high- quality educational systems and prepare each young person for success in careers, college, and citizenship. With partners, it will convene eight districts that have won federal Race to the Top-District grants (along with six non-winning districts) to help translate their applications into high-quality implementation plans and scopes of work.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.americaachieves.org
Address
100 West 33rd Street Suite 917-Box 900, New York, NY, 10001, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Since its inception, America Achieve’s goals have closely paralleled the Program’s. This grant would support work to expand the OECD’s PISA-Based Test for Schools, whose pilot the Program funded; define and support desired student outcomes in deeper learning; and communicate the successes of deeper learning achieved through classroom and school practices.
for the Raising the Bar project
This grant would support the planning and technology development phase of a national campaign to ignite a sense of urgency, optimism, and responsibility for raising the bar for U.S. education. The project’s major goals are to drive parental demand for rigor, secure support for the Common Core standards, and mitigate the risk of backlash when test results emerge in 2015. The plan will be piloted in two or three states in 2013, with national rollout in fall of 2014.
for the Results for America project to improve use of evidence in federal budget allocations
The U.S. government is facing a growing deficit and significant budget constraints, and resultant efforts to cut spending threaten many social programs. As New York Times columnist David Brooks suggests, "We’re going to be doing a lot of deficit cutting over the next several years. The country’s future greatness will be shaped by whether we cut wisely or stupidly." Today less than 1 percent of federal spending explicitly considers evidence of impact as a criterion for funding. Launched in 2012, Results for America seeks to improve the impact of public resources, shifting the funding debate toward a discussion of impact as a basis for resource allocation.
