The New Teacher Project
Starting with the premise that nothing has a greater influence on a school’s success than the quality of teachers, The New Teacher Project (later known simply as TNTP) was founded Read more…
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Imagination Library, Dolly Parton
The philanthropy of country-music singer Dolly Parton (much of it anonymous) has aimed mostly to help her neighbors in the middle South raise their level of education, and boost the Read more…
Alliance for Catholic Education
In the early 1990s, the Reverend Tim Scully and other leaders at the University of Notre Dame decided that if Catholic elementary and secondary schools were going to survive and Read more…
Annenberg Challenge
In the early 1990s it was easier for well-meaning observers to assume that the failures in American public education might be undone with just a little more effort and spending Read more…
Rowan University
Started in 1923 as a two-year teacher’s college in southern New Jersey, Rowan University is today home to 14,000 students, and one of only 56 institutions in the country granting Read more…
Math and Science for All
In 1992, three local college professors decided to try to improve high-school science and math in the New Orleans region. Enlisting business and civic supporters to their cause, they opened Read more…
JSTOR Makes Good Research Accessible
For millions of college students across the world, the digital database of academic journal articles known as JSTOR (for “Journal STORage”) is a central part of their educational experience. As Read more…
Pat Rooney and Educational Choice
In 1991, insurance executive Patrick Rooney established the CHOICE Trust, a first-of-its-kind program to provide vouchers enabling low-income parents in Indianapolis to send their children to private or parochial schools. Read more…
Walton Family Foundation’s Support for Charter Schools
The Walton Family Foundation was founded in 1991, the same year that Minnesota passed the nation’s first law establishing charter schools. The two innovations soon prospered in tandem, but only Read more…
Teach For America
In 1989, a Princeton undergraduate named Wendy Kopp wrote a thesis proposing a new elite corps that would give teaching an urgency, prestige, and national mission similar to military or Read more…
Posse Foundation
Posse has a simple mission: create social supports at top colleges to reduce dropout rates among students from poor urban neighborhoods. Although many elite colleges are anxious to have low-income Read more…
New Schools for New Orleans
As school reformers surveyed the wreckage after Hurricane Katrina closed New Orleans schools for six months, they resolved to grab the opportunity to completely remake that city’s disastrously failed education Read more…
The Mind Trust
Some of the most successful school-reform efforts today are driven by regional nonprofits with broad mandates to improve teaching, train principals, support school founders, and incubate launches of new charter Read more…
Blended Learning Schools
Marrying K-12 education with the technology revolution has been a slow and uneven process, with many dead ends. Halfway through the first decade of the new millennium, however, some educators Read more…
University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform
A criticism of the many schools of education in the United States is that they are much too wedded to the prevailing systems that have consistently underperformed. So it was Read more…
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
In the mid-2000s, state-level associations created to serve, improve, and defend charter schools were beginning to become very savvy and active in many parts of the country. A group of Read more…
Charter School Growth Fund
In 2005, as it was becoming clear that charter schools could produce powerful results among previously ill-served students, funders turned to the imperative of increasing the number of these effective Read more…
Math for America
James Simons is a walking advertisement for the power of math. The former chairman of the mathematics department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook got an Read more…
Opening University Offerings to the World
In 2001, the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology told the president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that for $100 million his university could put every one of Read more…
Pulling Talented Leaders into Education
“We need to change public education from a tired, government monopoly to a high-performing public enterprise. To do that you need better people in management and governance,” argues major education Read more…