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The most central were Developer Demonstrators, projects of educational innovations that had been rigorously reviewed and validated by a federal panel, the Joint Dissemination Review Panel. [2] The Developer Demonstration projects, or DDs, offered their professional development and other services to schools and school districts who had need for ...
The Technology Student Association (TSA) is a national non-profit career and technical student organization (CTSO) of over 300,000 middle and high school student members engaged in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). TSA's mission is to enhance personal development, leadership, and career opportunities in STEM, whereby ...
Previously known as Innovations for Learning, Chapter One is a global education nonprofit organization, dedicated to improving early literacy outcomes for children in under-resourced schools. It is grounded in the belief that learning to read is a basic civil right with the power to transform lives.
Lubienski's research examines the political economy of education, with a focus on equitable opportunities for all students. He has used organizational theory to examine innovation in charter schools, and is a proponent of geo-spatial analyses in education research.
The institute began with XQ: The Super School Project, to identify new ideas to reform schools and improve student performance. [3] [4] The organization was founded in September 2015 by Laurene Powell Jobs and Russlynn Ali. [3] XQ Institute's Board includes Marc Ecko, Yo-Yo Ma, Geoffrey Canada, Jimmy Iovine, and Michael Klein.
The founders assumed that if research could obtain evidence from across a wide range of systems, the variability would be sufficient to reveal important relationships within different school systems. They say they strongly rejected data-free assertions about the relative merits of various education systems, and aim to identify factors that ...
In 2005, Futurekids worked with Intel Corporation and other technology and national youth organizations in creating the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, an advocacy organization for positioning computer skills at the center of U.S. K–12. In November 2007, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills launched Route 21, an online, one-stop shop ...
In 2003, Diploma Plus became part of the Association for High School Innovation, formerly the Alternative High School Initiative. Since its launch in 1996, Diploma Plus has grown from a 100-student pilot at two sites in Boston, MA to an organization that, in 2009–10, enrolls over 3,400 students at 29 alternative high schools across the country.