Aspen Institute
For Support Of Aspen Institute's Urban Superintendents Network
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Amount$325,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/15/2010
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Term24 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
The Aspen Education Program seeks funding to continue facilitating and supporting its related Urban Superintendents and Chief Academic Officers leadership networks. The proposed work would help superintendents, chief academic officers, and chief financial officers learn from each other, from experts in the field, and from case studies and cross-district analyses illustrating examples and practices that can guide rapid, specific reforms at home. The Institute will continue its focus on resource allocation and alignment, strengthening districts’ abilities to develop the strategies and support systems they need for sustained, effective teaching and learning, particularly given the new challenges of implementing Common Core standards.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
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Address
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Grants to this Grantee
for support of the Aspen Institute Congressional Program
The Aspen Institute Congressional Program seeks to deepen the knowledge of members of Congress and key staff on significant global and domestic issues, and it has played an important role in building bipartisan relationships in Congress. This grant will provide a final year of support for Congressional Program participants to discuss ideas and analyze policies, in a series of breakfast meetings and in three or four multiday, invitation-only conferences, in person or in virtual formats.
for a forum on the feasibility and use of Opportunity-to-Learn indicators
The Aspen Institute, founded in 1949, is a global nonprofit organization committed to realizing a free, just, and equitable society. The Aspen Institute Education and Society Program works to improve public education by informing and influencing education leaders to take action on matters of education policy and practice. The pandemic has revealed deep inequities in our education system, underscoring the need for much better data on learning opportunities for students. This grant empanels a group of experts to review existing Opportunity-to-Learn data and develop recommendations for how these data can be incorporated in state and federal education policy. (Strategies: K-12 Teaching and Learning and Open Education)
for support of Aspen Institute's Urban Superintendents Network
The Aspen Institute Education and Society Program provides a neutral forum for education practitioners, researchers, and policy leaders to engage in focused dialogue about their efforts to improve student achievement and ways public policy changes can accelerate progress. Urban superintendents educate a disproportionate share of low-income students and students of color; this forum gives a group of nationally prominent advisors and foundation leaders a unique opportunity to learn more about the challenges of leading reform in some of the country’s most challenging, complex school districts. This will be a tie-off grant.
