This one decision will have an impact on your students' future forever.
Please Note: The original legislation for ARRA funds required that they be obligated by September 30, 2011, and spent by December 31, 2011. In a letter dated September 21, 2011, the federal Department of Education offered states the opportunity to receive a waiver to extend the obligation deadline for ARRA education funds (ESEA funds, but not IDEA funds) to September 30, 2012.
It’s not about adding more content or more tools – it’s about improving the way a student learns. You already have great teachers, content and resources. Now is the time to invest in an acceleration tool that allows students to build brain fitness – the basic foundation for learning success.
Consider Fast ForWord®: the only neuroscience based reading intervention program, built upon over 30 years of research, specifically developed and designed to increase the cognitive processing (i.e., brain fitness) of the student.
Brain Fitness: building memory, attention, processing rate and sequencing, enabling your students to accelerate learning in a short amount of time using your existing curriculum. No more investing in “stuff.” This is an investment in the brain fitness and lifelong success of your students.
How much funding will your state receive for improving students learning?
Use this web resource to look up the amount that each state has received in ARRA education funding.
Learn more
- Read about the Four Areas of Reform.
- Find out how Scientific Learning products support Race to the Top Fund requirements.
- Find out how Scientific Learning products support Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund requirements.
What is the Race to the Top Fund?
Race to the Top is “a competitive grant program designed to encourage and reward States that are creating the conditions for education innovation and reform; achieving significant improvement in student outcomes, including making substantial gains in student achievement, closing achievement gaps, improving high school graduation rates, and ensuring student preparation for success in college and careers; and implementing ambitious plans in four core education reform areas:
- Adopting standards and assessments that prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace and to compete in the global economy;
- Building data systems that measure student growth and success, and inform teachers and principals about how they can improve instruction;
- Recruiting, developing, rewarding, and retaining effective teachers and principals, especially where they are needed most; and
- Turning around our lowest-achieving schools.”
(Source: http://www.ed.gov/programs/racetothetop/executive-summary.pdf)
What is the Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund?
The purpose of the Investing in Innovation (i3) fund is: “To provide competitive grants that expand the implementation of, and investment in, innovative and evidence-based practices, programs and strategies that significantly:
- improve K-12 achievement and close achievement gaps;
- decrease dropout rates;
- increase high school graduation rates; and
- improve teacher and school leader effectiveness.”
To accelerate the creation of an education sector that supports the rapid development and adoption of effective solutions.
(Source: http://www.ed.gov/programs/innovation/factsheet.html)
