2013 Gates Foundation Education Grants

100 Black Men of America, Inc. (Amount: $583,531)

Description: To implement Project SOAR to enhance educational opportunities for the African American community

4Point0 Schools (Amount: $750,000)

Description: For general operating support

4Point0 Schools (Amount: $832,801)

Description: To build capacity for Startup Weekend EDU

A+ Schools: Pittsburgh's Community Alliance For Public Education (Amount: $500,543)

Description: To support 'Organizing for Great Teaching in Pittsburgh', an organizing and communications program aligned with the foundation's College Ready strategy

ACIAS LLC (Amount: $235,150)

Description: To build an online platform that recommends differentiated eBook and eJournal experiences and allows teachers to assign literacy modules that foster reading and writing growth

ACT Foundation (Amount: $250,000)

Description: To support the creation of the National Network of Business and Industry Associations (NNBIA) to engage and unify business and industry voice in designing postsecondary-to-employment learning solutions

Academy for Urban School Leadership (Amount: $2,000,000)

Description: To support the Teacher Development Program and Academy for Urban School Leadership Institute

Achievement First Inc. (Amount: $837,355)

Description: To provide support to Achievement First in partnership with Mastery Charter Schools and Denver School of Science and Technology Public Schools to develop a shared Common Core aligned interim assessment system

Achievement First Inc. (Amount: $361,927)

Description: To provide support to Achievement First in collaboration with YES Prep and Aspire Public Schools to develop a pilot leadership program for emerging charter management organizations

Achievement First Inc. (Amount: $48,907)

Description: To support personalized learning in existing schools

Achievement Network (Amount: $250,249)

Description: To support implementation of the Common Core State Standards

Achieving the Dream, Inc. (Amount: $25,530)

Description: To oordinate the technology vendors to present their IPAS systems at the Educause conference

Actively Learn Inc. (Amount: $270,000)

Description: To create a reading and writing solution for grades 4-8 with a technology that provides many of the benefits of one-to-one teacher instruction

Acuitus, Inc. (Amount: $13,763,544)

Description: To fund early-stage research and development for digital algebra instruction

Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools (Amount: $300,000)

Description: To support organizations in a strategic visioning engagement to develop their innovative professional development theory of action and implementation strategies

Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools (Amount: $40,000)

Description: To support the implementation of early-stage collaboration projects

Alliance for Excellent Education Inc. (Amount: $425,000)

Description: To support advocacy, communications, and policy development efforts

American Agora Foundation Inc (Amount: $100,000)

Description: To create a supplemental solution for supporting Common Core-aligned reading and writing experiences for 6th-8th-grade students

American Association for the Advancement of Science (Amount: $10,000)

Description: To support a symposium hosted by AAAS on broadening access to science, technology, engineering, and math education through technology

American Association of Community Colleges (Amount: $280,814)

Description: To support a collaborative effort to develop a strategic framework to assemble and report post-collegiate outcomes both now and in the future

American Educational Research Association (Amount: $250,000)

Description: To fund the selection and support of nine doctoral scholars who will conduct research in the area of teaching effectiveness using the Measures of Effective Teaching longitudinal database

American Federation Of Teachers Educational Foundation (Amount: $150,000)

Description: To enable the American Federation of Teachers Educational Foundation to support the Minnesota Guild of Public Charter Schools to become a self-sustaining organization

American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (Amount: $820,465)

Description: To support research to better understand and promote methods to improve effective teaching

American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (Amount: $426,633)

Description: To develop three tools for the state of Texas that counselors, students, and parents can use to make more informed decisions about how their educational choices will impact future employment and earnings

Americas Promise-The Alliance For Youth (Amount: $100,001)

Description: To support community awareness of the Common Core State Standards and assessments

Arizona State University (Amount: $330,000)

Description: To support the creation of the next generation of adaptive courses to enable student success

Arizona State University Foundation for A New American University (Amount: $198,440)

Description: To support the planning phase of the University Alliance project, whose members will test strategies for their effectiveness in impacting merics of access, quality and cost

Arkansas Public School Resource Center Inc (Amount: $200,000)

Description: To support the implementation of the Common Core State Standards

Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College (Amount: $100,000)

Description: To identify successful existing or promising IPAS implementations through a RFP, develop case studies of results, ROI, and implementation challenges, and disseminate to encourage greater adoption

Asia Society (Amount: $318,231)

Description: To support the continuing work of the Global Cities Education Network

Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (Amount: $25,000)

Description: To provide conference support

Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (Amount: $50,000)

Description: To support capacity building

Aspen Institute Inc (Amount: $500,000)

Description: To support strategic planning for the Aspen Education and Society Program

Aspen Institute Inc (Amount: $1,500,003)

Description: To support a group of school district leaders in their efforts to implement the Common Core standards

Aspen Institute Inc (Amount: $74,290)

Description: To develop a guide for implementing the Common Core State Standards

Aspire Public Schools (Amount: $249,855)

Description: To support Aspire Public Schools for a partnership with KIPP and Partnerships to Uplift Communities toward implementing Common Core-aligned assessments

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (Amount: $244,733)

Description: To support implementation of the Common Core State Standards

Association of American Colleges and Universities (Amount: $4,404,840)

Description: To support the development of innovative general education pathways in postsecondary education, General Education Maps (GEMS) and Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE), to better serve undergraduate students

Association of Educational Publishers (Amount: $448,202)

Description: To support an improved online content search experience for educational resources

Association of Governing Boards (Amount: $100,000)

Description: To conduct a study of governance models to determine how and where current models are most problematic, to generate new ideas on best practices, policies, and procedures for governance, and to make recommendations for new governance practices

Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (Amount: $543,729)

Description: To support the development and initial implementation of the Student Achievement Measure (SAM) Project

Athabasca University (Amount: $861,655)

Description: To support a coordinated program that targets specific questions about the design, delivery, and scale of MOOCs in higher education

Austin Community College (Amount: $100,000)

Austin Peay State University (Amount: $99,990)

Baton Rouge Area Foundation (Amount: $150,000)

Description: To support ongoing implementation of education reforms in LA through support to a coalition of advocacy organizations

Battelle For Kids (Amount: $249,808)

Description: To support the implementation of the Common Core State Standards

Behavioral Ideas Lab, Inc (Amount: $1,637,977)

Description: To support the design and testing of behavioral interventions within the financial aid system to improve student access and success, and demonstrate the value of those interventions to practitioners and policy-makers

Bellwether Education Partners, Inc. (Amount: $1,981,978)

Description: To support CoreSpring, an initiative to build a bank of shared Common Core aligned formative item and assessment resources that assure improved discoverability, availability and interoperability

Benchmark Education Company LLC (Amount: $25,000)

Description: To fund development of Common Core-aligned units foucsed in argumentative writing

Board of Trustees of Essex County College (Amount: $99,990)

Description: To support the creation of the next generation of adaptive courses to enable student success

Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University (Amount: $99,998)

Description: To identify successful existing or promising LRM implementations through a RFP, develop case studies of results, ROI, and implementation challenges, and disseminate to encourage greater adoption

Board of Trustees of St. Petersburg College (Amount: $94,804)

Description: To support a business plan/proposal for the scaled delivery of industry-validated certificates/certifications in a manner that leverages technology, (e.g. cloud-based services) to deliver shared content, instruction, and credentials

Board of Trustees of St. Petersburg College (Amount: $100,000)

Description: To support the creation of the next generation of adaptive courses to enable student success

Bridgeport Public Schools (Amount: $1,968,150)

Description: To support Bridgeport Public Schools implementation of an innovative professional development system for teachers

BrightBytes, Inc. (Amount: $330,781)

Description: To support the development of a web application that will allow teachers and vendors to run trials for online learning applications and ultimately make recommendations for school and district purchasing decisions

Broad Center for the Management of School Systems (Amount: $75,000)

Description: To support the smooth transition to district leadership, acceleration of instructional improvement and student achievement results for the office of Superintendent of Shelby County

Brookings Institution (Amount: $59,784)

Description: To conduct efforts to summarize the work of the Reimagining Aid Design & Delivery (RADD) project to date

Brown University (Amount: $538,573)

Description: To understand how evaluation can be better used as a tool for teacher development and provide districts with a cost-effective route to improving teaching quality and student achievement

Business Higher Education Forum (Amount: $100,000)

CELT Corporation (Amount: $500,000)

Description: To support the scaling of personalized learning school models by developing the discipline of enterprise architecture in school system redesign

CHIME Institute (Amount: $49,531)

Description: To support a feasibility study on the development and launch of an inclusive model charter school in Washington state

California Charter Schools Association (Amount: $750,000)

Description: To support advancement of quality Charter Schools in California

Center for American Progress (Amount: $550,000)

Description: To support Common Core implementation

Center for American Progress (Amount: $750,000)

Description: To support papers, policy briefs, and convenings regarding systems to prepare, develop, and support effective teaching

Center for Applied Linguistics (Amount: $249,396)

Description: To support implementation of the Common Core State Standards

Center for Better Schools - NAATE Program (Amount: $500,000)

Description: To support the growth of a teacher-leader development program to increase the leadership capacity in participating schools and benefit the academic achievement of students

Center for Community Change (Amount: $310,000)

Description: To focus on student loans, and provide the most comprehensive research and analysis to date on income-based repayment (IBR), while exploring the range of potential reforms and offering 'Pros' and 'Cons' of different approaches

Center for Education Reform (Amount: $250,000)

Description: To advance high quality charter policies

Center for Law and Social Policy (Amount: $310,010)

Description: To focus on ways to simplify and better target federal higher education tax benefits

Center for Public Justice (Amount: $150,000)

Description: To engage key Pittsburgh community leaders in support of improvements in the public education system

Center for Teaching Quality, Inc. (Amount: $17,240)

Description: To support the participation of a teacher leader from Denver, Colorado and Fayette County, Kentucky in the Global Cities Education Network

Center for Teaching Quality, Inc. (Amount: $249,471)

Description: To support the implementation of the Common Core State Standards

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (Amount: $200,000)

Description: To support the development of a system-level strategic plan for personalized learning

Charter Fund Inc dba Charter School Growth Fund (Amount: $4,000,000)

Description: To support high-performing charter school management organizations that are implementing effecting teaching systems and the Common Core State Standards in collaboration with districts

Charter Fund Inc dba Charter School Growth Fund (Amount: $152,253)

Description: To support a benchmarking and demand analysis of education software usage among charter networks and smaller school districts

Charter Fund Inc dba Charter School Growth Fund (Amount: $5,000,000)

Description: To explore the potential impact and optimal structure of a national fund to support high performing CMOs expanding nationally, and as a first investment, invest in Aspire Public School's expansion into Tennessee

Civic Builders Inc. (Amount: $685,000)

Description: To support Civic Builders operations

Classroom, Inc. (Amount: $100,000)

Description: To support a comprehensive, online ELA series for struggling 6th-8th graders

Clemson University (Amount: $24,800)

Description: To implement an application that supports literacy development through collaboration, individualized learning, and ongoing assessment

College-Ready Promise (Amount: $210,000)

Description: To increase student achievement and literacy skills by participation in the Literacy Design Collaborative, through the creation, jurying, professional development, and best practice sharing of two modules per participating teacher in 2013-2014

Colorado Children's Campaign (Amount: $146,337)

Description: To educate the public about the implementation of standards, assessments, and educator evaluation systems in Colorado

Colorado Education Initiative (Amount: $828,653)

Description: To support Colorado school districts in implementing and sustaining new educator evaluation systems and instructional strategies, with an emphasis on sustainability of the work and the central role of teachers leading in the design and use of resources and tools

Colorado Education Initiative (Amount: $100,001)

Description: To support the development of a system-level strategic plan for personalized learning

Colorado Education Initiative (Amount: $36,540)

Description: To support participation in the Global Education Leader's Program in Delhi, India

Colorado Education Initiative (Amount: $36,540)

Description: To support participation in the Global Education Leader's Program in Sydney, Australia

Colorado State University Foundation (Amount: $100,000)

Colorado Succeeds (Amount: $435,000)

Description: To support business community efforts to improve Colorado students' college and career readiness

Common Ground Software Inc. (Amount: $500,000)

Description: To enhance an online web writing environment that offers a variety of modes of formative assessment, as well as a dashboard of writing analytics for students and teachers, to cover all Common Core standards for writing in grades 4 to 8

Common Sense Media (Amount: $100,098)

Description: To support the Graphite, a service designed to help K-12 educators discover, use, and share the best apps, games, websites, and digital curricula for their students by providing unbiased ratings and insights from an active community of teachers

Consortium for School Networking (Amount: $429,971)

Description: To support the professional development of education technology leaders in service of the growth of personalized learning models in public school districts

Cooperative Educational Service Agency #2 (Amount: $395,931)

Description: To develop and study guidance to improve the quality of teacher-developed assessments

Council Of The Great City Schools (Amount: $2,000,000)

Description: To help member school districts to align implementation of the Common Core State Standards with their reform efforts in teacher effectiveness and prepare for new PARCC and SBAC online assessments

Council Of The Great City Schools (Amount: $614,954)

Description: To develop benchmarking of instructional-related expenditures to enable strategic resource alignment in K-12

Council for a Strong America (Amount: $2,200,000)

Description: To educate and engage stakeholders about the Common Core and teacher development

Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (Amount: $80,000)

Description: To support a pilot project to provide student teachers with feedback from surveys of their students

Council of Chief State School Officers (Amount: $1,958,500)

Description: To support a 20-month project of the Council of Chief State School Officers to help 7-10 member states and a subset of their school districts to integrate implementation of the Common Core State Standards with their reform efforts in teacher effectiveness in ways that produce measurable impact at the school and district level

Council of Chief State School Officers (Amount: $3,514,880)

Description: To support the Council of Chief State School Officers to work with several states to strengthen teacher preparation in order to improve academic outcomes for students

Council of Chief State School Officers (Amount: $400,000)

Description: To support improved access to high speed broadband connectivity for schools, libraries, museums, and public institutions that support teaching and learning

Council of Chief State School Officers (Amount: $4,000,000)

Description: To support the development of high quality assessments to measure the Common Core State Standards

Council of Chief State School Officers (Amount: $799,825)

Description: To support the Council of Chief State School Officers' partnership to support high quality implementation of the Common Core State Standards

Council of Chief State School Officers (Amount: $703,737)

Description: To support a multi-state pilot on education preparation

Creative Commons Corporation (Amount: $500,000)

Description: To support general operating

Dallas Independent School District (Amount: $185,840)

Description: To support Dallas ISD to further operationalize its College Readiness Indicator System (CRIS)

Dallas Independent School District (Amount: $100,000)

Description: To support the development of a system-level strategic plan for personalized learning

Data Quality Campaign, Inc. (Amount: $5,400,000)

Description: To support activities that build the capacity to use data to improve student learning

DePaul University (Amount: $248,343)

Description: To support implementation of the Common Core State Standards

Delaware Department of Education (Amount: $400,000)

Description: To fund the use of literacy and math tools statewide in Delaware in support of the state's implementation of the Common Core of State Standards

Denver Public Schools (Amount: $1,362)

Description: To support teacher participation in a convening

Denver Public Schools (Amount: $100,000)

Description: To support the development of a system-level strategic plan for personalized learning

Denver Public Schools (Amount: $10,000,000)

Description: To support the Denver Public Schools in finding, growing and keeping talented educators in the district to ensure their students have an effective teacher in every classroom every year

Design Innovation Factory (Amount: $99,998)

Description: To refine and expand Catalyst Writing and Reading, an adaptive learning game and assessment platform

DigiLearn Digital Learning Institute (Amount: $250,669)

Description: To develop a business and operation plan for the Digital Learning Institute (DigiLEARN)

DonorsChoose.org (Amount: $1,610,342)

Description: To allow teachers to directly purchase learning tools and technologies for their classrooms through Donors Choose

Durham Technical Community College Foundation Inc (Amount: $100,000)

E.L. Haynes Public Charter School (Amount: $42,000)

Description: To support personalized learning in mathematics at E.L. Haynes High School

East Mississippi Community College (Amount: $100,000)

Ednovo (Amount: $99,964)

Description: To extend Gooru's existing capabilities and content with an online task management suite for 5th-12th grade writing across STEM subjects, ELA, and Social Sciences

Education Development Center, Inc. (Amount: $211,795)

Description: To support the implementation of the Common Core State Standards

Education Trust Inc (Amount: $350,431)

Description: To focus on redesigning grants and work study loans for Phase II of the Reimagining Aid Design & Delivery (RADD) project

EducationSuperHighway (Amount: $2,000,000)

Description: To support broader access to reliable, high capacity Internet access in U.S. K-12 public schools

Educators for Excellence (Amount: $3,000,695)

Description: To support teachers to be leaders in policy development and implementation

Educause (Amount: $13,496,521)

Description: To support Next Generation Learning Challenges Wave IV

Educause (Amount: $419,569)

Description: To promote the adoption of analytics based systems like Integrated Planning and Advisory Services (IPAS) among 2- and 4-year institutions of higher education

Empirical Resolution Inc. (Amount: $25,000)

Description: To continue building a website that provides personalized grammar lessons for students

EnLearn (Amount: $989,929)

Description: To facilitate dramatic increases in academic achievement for students by building and validating a 6th-grade digital math courseware

Envision Education Inc (Amount: $75,000)

Description: To support personalized learning in mathematics at two school sites

Excelencia in Education (Amount: $298,943)

Description: To support Excelencia in Education and the proposed consortia members that will focus on redesigning grants and work study, for Phase II of the Reimagining Aid Design & Delivery (RADD) project

Excellent Schools Detroit (Amount: $99,902)

Description: To support the development of a system-level strategic plan for personalized learning

Excelsior College (Amount: $168,572)

Description: To support the creation of the next generation of adaptive courses to enable student success

Expectations Project Inc. (Amount: $255,000)

Description: To engage the faith community in improving educational opportunities and outcomes for low-income and minority students

Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound, Inc. (Amount: $250,000)

Description: To support implementation of the Common Core State Standards

Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation, Inc. (Amount: $231,846)

Description: To support implementation of the Common Core State Standards

Fayette County Public Schools (Amount: $840,000)

Description: To enable to Fayette County Public Schools in Kentucky to overcome financial barriers to effective implementation of instructional reforms and to develop resource alignment knowledge that other districts can use to overcome similar challenges

Filament Games, LLC (Amount: $25,000)

Description: To design a web-based tool for teaching well-structured argumentation that will allow teachers to effectively and efficiently meet Common Core literacy standards across the curriculum and grade levels

Florida College System Foundation Inc. (Amount: $549,000)

Description: To drive catalytic policy priorities forward, as part of the Completion by Design initiative, intended to create more targeted student success mechanisms for Florida College System students

Florida State University Research Foundation Inc. (Amount: $1,118,335)

Description: To support a study on the implementation and effectiveness of the developmental education efforts in Florida

Foundation Center (Amount: $50,000)

Description: To provide outreach and administer the i3 Registry on behalf of the education field

Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc. (Amount: $2,000,000)

Description: To support Common Core implementation

Fresno Unified School District (Amount: $5,243,614)

Description: To develop innovative professional development systems to create personalized learning systems for teachers

Fund For Transforming Education in Kentucky Inc (Amount: $25,000)

Description: For general operating support

Fund For Transforming Education in Kentucky Inc (Amount: $27,911)

Description: To support participation in the 2013 Global Education Leader's Program conference in Delhi, India

Fund for Public Schools Inc (Amount: $4,428,820)

Description: To support NYC to develop innovative professional development systems to create personalized learning systems for teachers; experiment with innovative modes of delivery; and build the capacity at every level of the organization to design learning and direct resources efficiently and effectively

Fund for Public Schools Inc (Amount: $1,846,488)

Description: To create new approaches for evaluating and improving the efficacy of digital courseware

Fund for Public Schools Inc (Amount: $100,000)

Description: To support the development of a system-level strategic plan for personalized learning

Fund for Public Schools Inc (Amount: $14,670)

Description: To support participation in the Global Education Leader's Program in Delhi, India

Fund for Public Schools Inc (Amount: $18,938)

Description: To support participation in the Global Education Leader's Program in Sydney, Australia

Gainesville State College Foundation, Inc (Amount: $99,999)

Description: To support the creation of the next generation of adaptive courses to enable student success

GameDesk Inc. (Amount: $25,000)

Description: To build a roadmap for CollaboWrite, a platform that effectively models writing as an interactive process and dialogue between writer and audience, targeted at students in grades 4-8

George Washington University (Amount: $259,801)

Description: To support the Center on Education Policy's continuing efforts to survey, analyze, and report on state and school district efforts to implement the Common Core State Standards

Giving Back Fund Inc. (Amount: $50,000)

Description: To support the 2013 Social Innovation Summit at the United Nations

Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (Amount: $1,294,700)

Description: To support resource best practices in K-12 school districts and community colleges

Grantmakers for Education (Amount: $250,000)

Description: To support capacity building efforts

Grantmakers for Education (Amount: $80,000)

Description: For conference and membership support

Grantmakers for Education (Amount: $40,000)

Description: To support GFE's upcoming member briefing Collective Impact: Strengthening the Practice of Cross-Sector Collaboration

Great Schools Partnership Inc. (Amount: $99,858)

Description: To support the development of a system-level strategic plan for personalized learning

GreatSchools, Inc. (Amount: $460,000)

Description: To foster family engagement through the development of tools that help parents better understand student learning standards

Green Dot Public Schools California (Amount: $257,675)

Description: To support organizations in a strategic visioning engagement to develop their innovative professional development theory of action and implementation strategies

Green Dot Public Schools California (Amount: $299,263)

Description: To support Green Dot Public Schools increase effective teaching and promote teacher voice through a teacher and leader exchange as part of national expansion to Memphis

Green Dot Public Schools Washington State (Amount: $16,420,000)

Description: To support the expansion of Green Dot Public Schools into the State of Washington

Growth Philanthropy Network Inc. (Amount: $400,000)

Description: To enable the design and build out of a collective funding model for scaling proven innovations in education (Social Impact Exchange)

HCM Strategists, LLC (Amount: $461,480)

Description: To identify high leverage strategies for reducing cost to students in higher education institutions

Harvard University (Amount: $208,950)

Description: To help build and codify knowledge of teaching practices

Harvard University (Amount: $557,168)

Description: To support Education Next's work in four critical areas: Common Core standards and assessments, digital learning, teacher effectiveness, and charter schools

Harvard University (Amount: $1,762,643)

Description: To validate reliability in teacher evaluation models

Harvard University (Amount: $397,036)

Description: To support training for school system staff in how to use analytics to support the educational objectives of their agencies

Henry County Schools (Amount: $100,000)

Description: To support the development of a system-level strategic plan for personalized learning

Highline Public Schools (Amount: $40,000)

Description: To support the implementation of early-stage collaboration projects

Hillsborough County Public Schools (Amount: $5,333)

Description: To support teacher participation in a convening

Hope Street Group (Amount: $950,548)

Description: To support teacher leadership and ensure teacher input into the new evaluation system in Kentucky

Houston Independent School District Foundation (Amount: $99,999)

Description: To support the development of a system-level strategic plan for personalized learning

ILID Inc (Amount: $250,000)

Description: To fund the creation of a low-cost network of tutors who can remotely support students from low income communities

Innosight Institute Inc (Amount: $650,000)

Description: To provide general operating support

Innovation Unit Limited (Amount: $965,190)

Description: To bring together a coalition of thought leaders, policy-makers, consultants and practitioners as part of the Global Education Leaders' Program (GELP) and support them through a convening

Internationals Network For Public Schools Inc (Amount: $200,000)

Description: To fund Project RISE: Realizing Internationals Supports for English Language Learners (i3 Match)

James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy Foundation, Inc. (Amount: $1,749,070)

Description: To support states in their continued implementation of the Common Core State Standards

James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy Foundation, Inc. (Amount: $500,000)

Description: To support the development of broadcast quality videos in which teachers demonstrate classroom strategies to teach the Common Core State Standards

James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy Foundation, Inc. (Amount: $100,000)

Description: To support the 2013 Governor's Education Symposium, which brings together governors in a productive dialogue about critical education issues

Jefferson County School District R-1 (Amount: $5,197,878)

Description: To develop innovative professional development systems to create personalized learning systems for teachers

Jefferson Parish Public School System (Amount: $200,000)

Description: To support effective implementation of instructional reforms by aligning resources and developing knowledge that other districts can use

Jefferson Parish Public School System (Amount: $286,500)

Description: To support the implementation of student surveys as part of teacher feedback and professional development

Jobs for the Future Inc. (Amount: $100,000)

Johnson County Community College (Amount: $432,357)

Description: To develop a benchmarking system of instructional-related expenditures to enable strategic resource alignment in community colleges

KIPP Bay Area Schools (Amount: $82,800)

Description: To support personalized learning in existing schools

KIPP Chicago Schools (Amount: $61,929)

Description: To support personalized learning in existing schools

KIPP Foundation (Amount: $2,694,891)

Description: To develop innovative professional development systems to create personalized learning systems for teachers; experiment with innovative modes of delivery; and build the capacity at every level of the organization to design learning and direct resources efficiently and effectively

KIPP Foundation (Amount: $1,500,000)

Description: To support the launch of 3-6 new schools in Fall 2014 that are implementing blended instructional practices in service of personalized learning

KIPP New York Inc. (Amount: $75,000)

Description: To support personalized learning in existing schools

KIPP, Inc. (Amount: $74,871)

Description: To support personalized learning in existing schools

Kentucky Department of Education (Amount: $497,878)

Description: To support implementation of the state's professional growth and effectiveness system

Kentucky Department of Education (Amount: $40,000)

Description: To support participation in the 2013 Global Education Leader's Program conference in Sydney Australia

KnowledgeWorks Foundation (Amount: $241,747)

Description: To support the implementation of the Common Core State Standards

Knox County Schools (Amount: $840,000)

Description: To enable to Knox County Public Schools in Tennessee to overcome financial barriers to effective implementation of instructional reforms and to develop resource alignment knowledge that other districts can use to overcome similar challenges

Lake County Schools (Amount: $100,000)

Description: To support the development of a system-level strategic plan for personalized learning

Lake County Schools (Amount: $840,000)

Description: To enable to Lake County Public Schools in Florida to overcome financial barriers to effective implementation of instructional reforms and to develop resource alignment knowledge that other districts can use to overcome similar challenges

Leading Educators Inc (Amount: $3,500,858)

Description: To support a teacher leader development program designed to increase academic achievement among low-income and minority students

League For Innovation in the Community College (Amount: $2,610,580)

Description: To include the faculty voice in the national Completion Agenda conversation as a strategy for driving faculty use of technology-enabled personalized learning (TEPL) at individual and institutional levels, thereby transforming instructional practice to improve student success and completion

LearnZillion, Inc. (Amount: $250,000)

Description: To develop high-quality lessons, assessments, and activities aligned to the Common Core literacy standards created by top teachers from around the country

LearnZillion, Inc. (Amount: $1,465,525)

Description: To support conferences to deepen teacher understanding of the Common Core standards

Learning Forward (Amount: $249,994)

Description: To fund the Learning Forward Annual Conference

Learning Games Network Inc (Amount: $494,953)

Description: To fund a national cadre of teachers to collaborate on the use of games, and learning and assessment tools

Learning Matters, Inc. (Amount: $25,000)

Description: To support reporting on the Common Core State Standards

Lexia Learning Systems, Inc. (Amount: $500,000)

Description: To develop technology that allows students to build on foundational literacy skills and develop the critical connection between deep reading and writing. Students plan, draft, edit, revise and publish digital texts through online activities

LightSIDE Labs LLC (Amount: $25,000)

Description: To develop a system that automatically assesses and gives feedback on student writing, and supports the revision process for students

LightSail Inc. (Amount: $500,125)

Description: To support a literacy solution that uses complex texts, ongoing assessments, social media, and teacher supports to deliver a complete CCSS-aligned curriculum

Liquid Interactive (Amount: $25,000)

Description: To fund a proof of concept for Writelike, a web-based tool to help improve writing skills

Literacy Design Collaborative, Inc (Amount: $12,000,000)

Description: To incubate an anchor Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) organization to further expand reach and impact

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Amount: $150,000)

Description: To fund the development of a comprehensive financial disclosure template for the charter school bond sector and one symposium for lenders and borrowers

Lone Star College System (Amount: $100,000)

Long Beach Unified School District (Amount: $2,999,422)

Description: To support research to better understand and promote methods to improve teaching effectiveness

Long Beach Unified School District (Amount: $5,151,110)

Description: To develop innovative professional development systems to create personalized learning systems for teachers

Lorain County Community College Foundation (Amount: $100,000)

Los Angeles Unified School District (Amount: $100,000)

Description: To support the development of a system-level strategic plan for personalized learning

MDRC (Amount: $4,578,261)

Description: To conduct research and evaluation on district efforts to improve professional development systems

Manufacturing Institute (Amount: $200,000)

Maricopa County Community College District (Amount: $99,904)

Description: To support the creation of the next generation of adaptive courses to enable student success

Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, Inc. (Amount: $250,000)

Description: To fund a study of Massachusetts' current K-12 system and how it compares to public education systems in other states and nations that consistently achieve high levels of student performance

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Amount: $114,403)

Description: To support an online, game-based learning experience for reading and writing aligned to Common Core literacy standards

Mastery Charter High School (Amount: $50,388)

Description: To support personalized learning in existing schools

Miami Dade College (Amount: $100,000)

Michigan State University (Amount: $650,000)

Description: To support an implementation study of the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics

Midwestern Higher Education Compact (Amount: $45,000)

Description: To support the Midwest Higher Education Compact (MHEC) annual conference

Military Child Education Coalition (Amount: $563,611)

Description: To support implementation of the Common Core State Standards by engaging military leaders and families

Mississippi First Inc. (Amount: $98,223)

Description: To support high-quality charter schools in Mississippi

Montgomery County Community College Foundation (Amount: $100,000)

Montgomery County Public Schools (Amount: $100,000)

Description: To support the development of a system-level strategic plan for personalized learning

Morgan State University Foundation Inc (Amount: $100,000)

Motion Math, Inc. (Amount: $1,348,000)

Description: To support the development of personalized learning tools

Mozilla Foundation (Amount: $333,860)

Description: To develop a set of online career pathways in partnership with K-12 and postsecondary institutions and businesses

NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education (Amount: $501,580)

Description: To support Common Core implementation in Kentucky

NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education (Amount: $3,882,600)

Description: To support a cohort of National Education Association Master Teachers in the development of Common Core-aligned lessons in K-5 mathematics and K-12 English Language Arts

NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education (Amount: $3,196,300)

Description: To support the capacity of state NEA affiliates to advance teaching and learning issues and student success in collaboration with local affiliates

NYSUT Education and Learning Trust (Amount: $1,245,813)

Description: To support continued work on a differentiated teacher support and evaluation project in NY and RI districts

National Academy of Sciences (Amount: $300,008)

Description: To support a study and report regarding the appropriate protections for subjects in behavioral, social, and educational research

National Alliance For Public Charter Schools (Amount: $1,300,000)

Description: To provide support for the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools to foster a strong charter sector that allows every family to choose a high performing public school that delivers an excellent education for their children

National Association of State Boards of Education (Amount: $800,000)

Description: To support a development plan for the organization and its efforts to provide training and information to implement Common Core State Standards

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Inc (Amount: $3,743,337)

Description: To support revision of the National Board certification process

National Catholic Educational Association (Amount: $76,593)

Description: To support trainings and provision of follow-up materials for teachers on implementing the Common Core State Standards

National Center for Families Learning (Amount: $239,796)

Description: To support implementation of the Common Core State Standards

National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies (Amount: $499,547)

Description: To support school districts' efforts to redesign procurement processes

National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies (Amount: $10,500)

Description: To provide project management support for the Teacher Wallets pilot program

National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment Inc. (Amount: $606,608)

Description: To study approaches for measuring academic achievement and growth in non-tested grades and subjects

National College Access Network (Amount: $340,000)

Description: To research policy options to simplify and make further transparent the federal financial aid system, with the goal of increasing access, improving college choice and improving student outcomes

National Congress of Parents and Teachers (Amount: $660,422)

Description: To educate parents and communities on the Common Core State Standards and provide support for district leaders

National Council of Teachers of English (Amount: $249,482)

Description: To support implementation of the Common Core State Standards

National Council on Teacher Quality (Amount: $3,688,859)

Description: To support initiatives to ensure high-quality teacher feedback and evaluation systems, improved district policies and practices, and improved teacher preparation and entry

National Geographic Society (Amount: $10,000)

Description: To provide access for students in low-income neighborhoods to the National Geographic Live! Speaker Series, a monthly event for Washington State students that showcases National Geographic explorers, scientists, photographers, and filmmakers

National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (Amount: $750,000)

Description: To support governors in implementing the Common Core State Standards and improving teacher and principal preparation

National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (Amount: $25,000)

Description: To provide conference support

National Laboratory for Education Transformation (Amount: $100,000)

National Math and Science Initiative Inc. (Amount: $216,067)

Description: To support the implementation of the Common Core State Standards

New America Foundation (Amount: $200,002)

Description: To conduct research on the effectiveness and utility of exit exams and develop and distribute policy options for states as they develop their Common Core assessment systems

New America Foundation (Amount: $740,000)

Description: To support the Postsecondary National Policy Institute (PNPI), which serves as a source of continuing education and independent policy formation for Congressional staff working on postsecondary issues

New Leaders Inc (Amount: $2,000,000)

Description: To support the Emerging Leader Program for teacher leaders

New Schools Fund dba NewSchools Venture Fund (Amount: $933,529)

Description: To support partner engagement in early-stage education technology investments for K-12 students

New Schools Fund dba NewSchools Venture Fund (Amount: $2,112,133)

Description: To support the development of new teacher preparation programs and training tools that will improve academic outcomes for students

New Schools for Chicago (Amount: $100,000)

Description: To support the eLearn Innovation Hub and foster the development and adoption of education technology products to increase access to personalized learning content, scale the use of innovative tools, and ensure that educators and entrepreneurs are working together to develop and utilize the best data-driven tools

New Schools for Chicago (Amount: $100,000)

Description: To support the development of a system-level strategic plan for personalized learning

New Schools for New Orleans Inc (Amount: $99,080)

Description: To support the development of a system-level strategic plan for personalized learning

New Teacher Center (Amount: $8,000,000)

Description: To provide general operating support to grow New Teacher Center's comprehensive mentoring program for new teachers

New Teacher Center (Amount: $250,000)

Description: To support implementation of the Common Core State Standards

New Teacher Project, Inc. (Amount: $7,000,000)

Description: To provide general operating support over two years to help ensure all students have access to effective teaching

New Venture Fund (Amount: $800,000)

Description: To support the New Venture Fund in managing the final year of the Cross-State Learning Collaborative

New Venture Fund (Amount: $3,213,686)

Description: To support Common Core implementation

New Venture Fund (Amount: $1,150,000)

Description: To support the Common Core Communications Collaborative in communications efforts related to the Common Core

New Visions for Public Schools, Inc (Amount: $250,000)

Description: To support the implementation for the Common Core State Standards

New Visions for Public Schools, Inc (Amount: $200,001)

Description: To build an adaptive learning platform for the reading and the writing process, for grades 3-8. The system offers students many types of help, meaningful feedback, and different content approaches to achieve differentiated instruction

New Voice Strategies (Amount: $1,726,129)

Description: To support growth of VIVA Teachers and VIVA Idea Exchanges

New York City Department of Education (Amount: $387)

Description: To fund participation in a teacher advisory council

North American Council for Online Learning (Amount: $100,000)

Description: To develop and distribute knowledge (e.g., technical assistance documents, policy briefs, blog posts) regarding competency-based education and personalized learning

North American Council for Online Learning (Amount: $1,000,000)

Description: To provide general operating support

North American Council for Online Learning (Amount: $14,657)

Description: To support technology demonstrations at iNACOL 2013 conference

North Carolina Association of Community College Trustees (Amount: $68,160)

Description: To develop and recruit champions for the completion agenda among NC community college trustees; the project scope will focus on building training curricula and delivering training modules for members

North Carolina Community College System (Amount: $400,000)

Description: To execute the role of state policy lead for Completion by Design in North Carolina

North Carolina State University (Amount: $100,000)

Description: To support the creation of the next generation of adaptive courses to enable student success

Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (Amount: $100,000)

Northeastern University (Amount: $100,000)

Description: To support the creation of the next generation of adaptive courses to enable student success

Northern Illinois University, Office of Education Innovation (Amount: $100,000)

Oakland Public Education Fund (Amount: $100,000)

Description: To support the development of a system-level strategic plan for personalized learning

Ohio Association of Community Colleges (Amount: $399,964)

Description: To elevate community college institutional innovations funded by the foundation to model the practice and leadership required of all Ohio community colleges to increase college completion and credential attainment

On Deck Systems LLC (Amount: $99,500)

Description: To support the development of innovative digital courseware that allows for personalized learning among 4th and 5th grade students in the area of opinion essay writing

Partnerships to Uplift Communities Lakeview Terrace (Amount: $80,426)

Description: To support organizations in a strategic visioning engagement to develop their innovative professional development theory of action and implementation strategies

Partnerships to Uplift Communities Lakeview Terrace (Amount: $1,860)

Description: To support performance held at ECET2 in San Diego

Pasadena Independent School District (Amount: $200,000)

Description: To support the development of a system-level strategic plan for personalized learning

Pennsylvania Business Council Education Foundation (Amount: $262,003)

Description: To engage the Pennsylvania business community in support of improving college and career-readiness for Pennsylvania's students

Perkins School for the Blind (Amount: $249,113)

Description: To support implementation of the Common Core State Standards

Perspectives Charter School (Amount: $150,000)

Description: To support personalized learning in existing schools

Plexus Institute, Inc. (Amount: $1,530,104)

Description: To support research to better understand and promote methods to improve teaching effectiveness

Policy Innovators In Education Network, Inc. (Amount: $499,951)

Description: To support Common Core implementation

PolicyLink (Amount: $1,000,000)

Description: To support a four-year effort that will provide technical assistance to Promise Neighborhoods implementation and planning grantees, and issue-based technical assistance for key areas of the cradle-to-career pipeline of expanded learning

Portland Public Schools (Amount: $200,000)

Description: To support the development of a system-level strategic plan for personalized learning

PowerMyLearning, Inc. (Amount: $348,288)

Description: To conduct short-cycle testing of digital content using CFY's free PowerMyLearning platform to give developers information to help them improve their content, and help educators better select and incorporate digital content to personalize learning and improve student achievement

Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence (Amount: $152,513)

Description: To convene, educate and support member organizations of the 3KT group (KASA, KASS and KSBA), to collectively provide high-quality trainings and information about Kentucky's new Teacher and Principal Professional Growth and Effectiveness System (PGES)

Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence (Amount: $50,527)

Description: To support the continuation of district convenings jointly hosted by Prichard Committee and the Kentucky Department of Education

Prince George's Community College Foundation, Inc (Amount: $100,000)

Public Agenda (Amount: $250,000)

Description: To support teacher engagement in the development and implementation of teacher evaluation systems

Puget Sound Educational Service District (Amount: $247,465)

Description: To support implementation of the Common Core State Standards

Quackenworth Inc. (Amount: $25,000)

Description: To enhance writetify a web-based courseware solution for writing

Regents University Of California Los Angeles (Amount: $1,171,230)

Description: To develop a tool that helps states on Common Core-aligned assessments

Region 8 ESC of Northeast Indiana (Amount: $249,505)

Description: To support implementation of the Common Core State Standards

Relay Graduate School of Education (Amount: $399,827)

Description: To support the planning and design of an innovative approach to teacher preparation

Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amount: $99,970)

Description: To support the creation of the next generation of adaptive courses to enable student success

Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amount: $330,000)

Description: To support a short-cycle planning effort to design OpenSUNY, an initiative that will consolidate disparate online instructional capacity and leverage it to increase the number of bachelor degrees produced by the system by 100,000 per year

Research Foundation of the City University of New York (Amount: $99,992)

Research for Action Inc (Amount: $650,000)

Description: To study teacher collaboration strategies that support school and district implementation of Common Core State Standards

Riverside Unified School District (Amount: $100,000)

Description: To support the development of a system-level strategic plan for personalized learning

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc. (Amount: $2,500,000)

Description: To support states in their efforts to implement college and career-ready assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards

Rocketship Education (Amount: $150,000)

Description: To support personalized learning in existing schools

Rocky Mountain Preparatory School (Amount: $50,000)

Description: To support a 40-student personalized learning pilot during summer 2013

Rose Community Foundation (Amount: $121,256)

Description: To support Jefferson County's outreach to parents, educators and the community about its efforts to help teachers tailor learning for all students

Rutgers The State University of New Jersey (Amount: $623,035)

Description: To support research to better understand how low-income Latino children and their families engage with technology for learning purposes

SEED Foundation, Inc. (Amount: $200,000)

Description: To explore partnerships with current and potential College Ready Compact cities that have the greatest likelihood of partnering with the SEED Foundation to pilot and spread college ready strategies related to teacher effectiveness, common core state standards, and personalized learning models

SRI International (Amount: $557,743)

Description: To study technology tools for teachers that support literacy instruction

STRIVE Preparatory Schools (Amount: $299,363)

Description: To support organizations in a strategic visioning engagement to develop their innovative professional development theory of action and implementation strategies

Saint Leo University Inc (Amount: $100,000)

Description: To support the creation of the next generation of adaptive courses to enable student success

San Jose Unified School District (Amount: $201,600)

Description: To support the scaling of SJUSD's College Readiness Indicator Systems (CRIS)

Savannah Technical College (Amount: $98,908)

Description: To support the creation of the next generation of adaptive courses to enable student success

School Board of Pinellas County, Florida (Amount: $64,518)

Description: To support the development of a system-level strategic plan for personalized learning

SchoolSeed Foundation (Amount: $75,000)

Description: To convene district teachers and leaders to elevate and celebrate effective teaching and teachers across the Unified Shelby County Schools District

Seneca Family of Agencies (Amount: $199,990)

Description: To provide support to the Seneca Family of Agencies for the development of integrated systems of support for at-risk students in Washington State charter schools

Shelby County Schools Education Foundation (Amount: $250,000)

Description: To assist SCS, including its work with The Boston Consulting Group for services and consultation with respect to merger activities

Silicon Valley Education Foundation (Amount: $351,493)

Description: To support the Learning Innovation Hub that will bring together entrepreneurs, educators, researchers and investors to pilot innovative products that enhance STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education

Six Red Marbles LLC (Amount: $451,360)

Description: To build a system to facilitate interactive personalized learning experiences for students in grades 4-8 as they pursue mastery of the Common Core literacy standards

Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (Amount: $249,830)

Description: To advance the understanding and use of improvement science methods in education

Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (Amount: $5,000)

Description: To support registration for SREE's Fall 2013 conference fees for 11 individuals from LEAs, SEAs and non-profit organizations

South Texas College (Amount: $99,000)

Southern Regional Education Board (Amount: $350,000)

Description: To support four projects designed to advance the design of sound and effective systems of educator effectiveness across their 16-state region. The projects will benchmark the design of state systems of teacher effectiveness with the Foundation's nine MET principles; examine state efforts to improve observation practices as part of teacher evaluation; convene state and district leaders to learn from the experiences of select IPS districts; and develop a plan for a longer-term effort to demonstrate what instruction aligned with the Common Core State Standards looks like in the classroom

Southern Regional Education Board (Amount: $550,000)

Description: To support a three-month strategic and organizational planning process

St. Bernard Parish Public Schools (Amount: $71,166)

Description: To support the implementation of rater certification in St Bernard Parish Public Schools in Louisiana for the purposes of ensuring reliable observations to provide teachers with feedback and evaluation

Stand for Children Leadership Center (Amount: $750,772)

Description: To support public understanding and successful implementation of college and career ready standards in states

Stand for Children Leadership Center (Amount: $879,810)

Description: To support a cohort of school district superintendents to advocate for improving teaching, learning, and results in Louisiana public schools

Stand for Children Leadership Center (Amount: $218,298)

Description: To organize supportive parents and teachers in Jefferson Parish, LA, to implement reforms that ensure that all children, regardless of their background, graduate from high school prepared for and with access to a college education

Stanford University (Amount: $199,704)

Description: To expand and improve educational opportunities for public school students in California by supporting successful implementation of the Common Core State Standards

Stanford University (Amount: $46,394)

Description: To support research on practice-based teacher preparation

Stanford University (Amount: $210,279)

Description: To support the Learning Analytics Summer Institute, which will convene researchers at different stages of their career to develop their skills and knowledge

Stanly Community College (Amount: $99,997)

State Education Technology (Amount: $953,184)

Description: To increase the capacity of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium to develop open source applications and to support state implementation by funding a Chief Technology Officer

Summit Public Schools (Amount: $11,000,000)

Description: To provide support to Summit Public Schools create Summit Washington and launch two high performing charter high schools (grades 9-12) and one high performing charter middle and high school (grades 6-12)

Summit Public Schools (Amount: $250,000)

Description: To provide support to Summit Public Schools for a partnership with Green Dot Public Schools and Match Education to pursue cognitive assessments aligned to the Common Core

Summit Public Schools (Amount: $75,000)

Description: To support personalized learning in existing schools

Summit Public Schools (Amount: $40,000)

Description: To support the implementation of early-stage collaboration projects

Teach for America, Inc. (Amount: $400,000)

Description: To study whether feedback from students and/or trained classroom observers can lead to more effective teaching

Teaching Channel (Amount: $7,000,000)

Description: For general operating support

Teaching Channel (Amount: $270,492)

Description: To create content for the 2013 ECET2 conference

Tennessee Department of Education (Amount: $400,000)

Description: To support leadership training, coaching, and materials on Common Core implementation

Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education (Amount: $250,000)

Description: To support outreach on Common Core State Standards in Tennessee

ThinkCERCA.com, Inc. (Amount: $250,000)

Description: To support a web-based platform that teaches critical thinking by delivering the tools and content teachers need to design personalized lessons

Tower Foundation of San Jose State University (Amount: $22,500)

Description: To support online pilot courses in partnership with Udacity

Triumph Learning, LLC (Amount: $100,000)

Description: To develop an adaptive learning platform for elementary and middle school reading and writing

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Amount: $159,436)

Description: To support the mapping of the postsecondary market structure in order to potentially develop a market segmentation system designed to inform policy makers and institutional leaders around institutional comparisons and students around college choice options

Tulsa Public Schools (Amount: $298,176)

Description: To support organizations in a strategic visioning phase to develop their innovative professional development theory of action and strategies

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation (Amount: $1,910,978)

Description: To support Common Core State Standards implementation

U.S. Department of Education (Amount: $300,000)

Description: For general conference support

U.S. Department of Education (Amount: $50,000)

Description: To support the USDOE execution of a conference: HBCUs Facing Forward: A New Paradigm for Education the 21st Century Students

U.S. Education Delivery Institute, Inc. (Amount: $879,000)

Description: To support state and district implementation of high-quality teacher development and evaluation systems

University System of Georgia Foundation, Inc. (Amount: $72,897)

Description: To enable states and state systems working with new models to accelerate the work of these early adopters; set examples and standards as reputation leaders; create a public agenda focus; use their considerable capacity to execute on significant scale; and inform the design and implementation of a multi-state collaborative

University of California, Davis (Amount: $100,000)

Description: To support the creation of the next generation of adaptive courses to enable student success

University of Chicago (Amount: $175,000)

Description: To provide support to the Consortium on Chicago School Research's Becoming Effective Learners Survey Development Project

University of Florida (Amount: $232,336)

Description: To support the implementation of the Common Core State Standards

University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Amount: $25,000)

Description: To support underachieving writers in grades 4-8 to improve their competencies by developing a Web-based tool that is freely available in an online social learning environment

University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Amount: $1,000,000)

Description: To support the launch of a new Center for Innovation in Education to advance implementation of the common core and more personalized learning for students and teachers that will enable young people to graduate career and college ready

University of Michigan (Amount: $398,704)

Description: To support research on how teachers use content-focused educational games to support formative assessment practices

University of Missouri - Columbia (Amount: $249,826)

Description: To support implementation of the Common Core State Standards

University of Texas at Arlington (Amount: $97,200)

Description: To discuss the current state of MOOCs, challenges, emerging opportunities, and future directions with leading researchers

University of Texas at San Antonio (Amount: $99,770)

Description: To identify successful IPAS implementations, develop case studies of results, ROI, and implementation challenges, and encourage greater adoption

University of Washington Foundation (Amount: $1,879,038)

Description: To provide support for district-charter compacts

University of Washington Foundation (Amount: $674,190)

Description: To support Common Core Implementation

Uplift Education (Amount: $63,300)

Description: To support personalized learning in existing schools

WestEd (Amount: $378,500)

Description: To support research to understand how teachers use data to inform instructional practice

WestEd (Amount: $25,000)

Description: To develop interactive learning courseware to address writing and literacy skills for students in grades 7-8

WestEd (Amount: $30,000)

Description: To support CalTURN meeting, which will focus on collaborative implementation of common core standards, and achieving equity by ensuring all students have access to well-prepared, committed teachers

Whatcom Community College (Amount: $100,000)

Whipsmart Learning LLC (Amount: $100,000)

Description: To support a personalized literacy solution for K-12 classrooms

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Amount: $70,346)

Description: To support the creation of the next generation of adaptive courses to enable student success

eSpark Inc. (Amount: $97,121)

Description: To develop a solution that measures the effects of specific educational applications on student achievement and engagement

iCivics, Inc. (Amount: $500,000)

Description: To support an argumentative writing courseware aligned to the Common Core literacy standards