In "To Turn A School Around, Put Students At The Center," Laura Perille, President & CEO of EdVestors, and Chad d'Entremont, Executive Director of the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy, discuss how the Jeremiah E. Burke High School sought to identify and address the root causes of previous academic failure in...
READ MOREBPS Arts Expansion has been featured in Education Week Commentary's "A Blueprint for Successful Arts Education: Five strategies for investing in students' creative capital." From the article: We have all heard the story: Arts education has suffered from years of neglect and decline in our schools to make room for tested...
READ MOREApplications are now available for EdVestors' School Solutions Seed Fund investments. The deadline to apply for funding for the 2016-17 school year is November 3, 2016. Learn more at our upcoming Information Session on Thursday, October 6th (9:00-10:30am). Please click here to RSVP for the information session. GRANT...
READ MOREThe Clowes Fund, EdVestors' longtime supporter, has featured our education work on their Grantee Spotlight. From The Clowes Fund: TEAMING UP TO EDUCATE: NO SIMPLE TASK. Education is a simple word that represents a complex system with many actors—students, teachers, parents, administrators, policymakers—who must work...
READ MOREThe McKay K-8 School joined EdVestors' Zeroing in on Math Intervention Cohort in June 2015 with a focus on math interventions for their most struggling students in grades 6-8. Students worked with a Math Interventionist on Do the Math Now!, an intervention curriculum designed to rebuild numerical foundations and prepare...
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