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PRESS RELEASE: EDUCAUSE Announces $20 Million for Next Generation Learning Challenges

The collaborative, multi-year initiative aims to help dramatically improve college readiness and completion in the United States through the use of technology.​
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PRESS RELEASE: Next Generation Learning Challenges Names First Grant Recipients

New projects identify and expand innovative technology-enabled approaches that improve college completion in the United States​
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PRESS RELEASE: Next Generation Learning Challenges Announces $7 Million for Innovative Solutions to Help Students Meet Common Core Standards

NGLC funded 19 technology-enabled programs helping students master 7th- to 9th-grade-level math and literacy aligned with the Common Core State Standards​
New Designs for School

PRESS RELEASE: Third Wave of Next Generation Learning Challenges to Invest $12 Million in Breakthrough Personalized Learning Models

NGLC seeks approaches that can help all students—but especially low-income students and students of color—develop the skills and knowledge necessary to lead productive lives.
New Designs for School

PRESS RELEASE: NGLC Identifies Five Breakthrough Whole-School Models for College Readiness

$750,000 in pre-launch grants to five middle and high school developers that will open new schools in Fall 2012
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College Ready Learning Technologies

Catalogue featuring NGLC grant recipients and additional projects funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, organized by content area
New Designs for School

PRESS RELEASE: 12 New Breakthrough Models for College Readiness and Completion Receive NGLC Funds

NGLC today announced $4.5 million in grants for comprehensive new secondary school and college models that use technology to reach targets for affordability and student success.
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Get the Math: Impact on Students’ Use of Algebra

By Shalom M. Fisch

Research conducted for Thirteen/WNET, August 17, 2012

An embedded assessment approach was used to evaluate the educational impact of Get the Math, a multimedia project that employs online videos and interactive, game-like challenges to engage middle and high school students in meaningful algebraic problem solving as they attempt to solve real-world problems involving mathematical content such as proportional reasoning, linear relationships, or quadratic functions.
New Designs for School

Xtreme Innovation

NGLC's latest “re-invention” challenge to secondary and postsecondary educators and innovators pushes the needle on fundamentally rethinking education itself.
Why Schools Need to Change

A quest to understand America’s math problem

Ko’s Journey creator Scott Laidlaw of Imagine Education describes how a quest to teach math to middle schoolers turned into a bigger quest to understanding how so many classrooms do it wrong.