America Achieves, Inc.
For A PISA School Network Meeting
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Amount$100,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/5/2012
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Term9 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.americaachieves.org
Address
1460 Broadway, 8th Floor,
New York, NY 20001-2030
New York, NY 20001-2030
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
America Achieves is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing excellence and equity in U.S. schools. America Achieves will continue to imbue deeper learning across its individual programs, which include a global network of schools and districts using the OECD Test for Schools (based on PISA) for benchmarking and improvement purposes, as well as a teacher and principal fellows program aimed at creating educator leaders. The organization’s work supports an increase in bottom-up demand for deeper learning practices both by exposing teacher leaders to deeper learning champions and by supporting the spread of improved instructional practices using a common benchmark.
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.