America Achieves
For The Raising The Bar Project
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Amount$50,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/20/2013
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Term6.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
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.
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
America Achieves advances fair access to educational and economic opportunity by serving as a scale-oriented program incubator/accelerator — as well as an advisor and convener of key leaders. Since the organization was founded, it has supported projects advancing deeper learning and incubated, scaled, and launched educational policy and systems change initiatives, while advising dozens of top foundations and leaders across sectors. The grant will assist in the spin-off of remaining initiatives, conducting an effective transition, and wind-up for the organization.
for the Results for America project to improve use of evidence in federal budget allocations
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 create a new norm for allocating public dollars through "investing in what works," helping to drive public resources toward results-oriented solutions.
