Gates Millennium Scholars
Just before the turn of the millennium, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation put into operation a major college scholarship program for minority students, with an initial grant of a Read more…
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Leadership and Character Education at Our Academies
Character education has been a centerpiece of the training provided by America’s military academies right from their foundings. The honor codes and leadership lessons expounded at West Point, Annapolis, and Read more…
BASIS School Network
The first BASIS school was opened in 1998 with the intention of creating an open-admission public school that could produce results as good as the world’s top-scoring schools in places Read more…
Children’s Scholarship Fund
Ted Forstmann and John Walton were two of the country’s most successful businessmen, but they’d never met until they donated $6 million to the Washington Scholarship Fund. That fund was Read more…
NewSchools Venture Fund
In the late 1990s, some Silicon Valley investors impressed by the ability of imaginative entrepreneurs to solve knotty problems in technology decided to see if they could apply some of Read more…
Ave Maria University
Raised in an orphanage run by nuns, Tom Monaghan had a deep appreciation for Catholic education. After the 1997 sale of his stake in Domino’s Pizza, the firm he founded Read more…
Project Lead the Way
In 1986, a public-school teacher in upstate New York created a special high-school curriculum to encourage more of his students to study engineering. Within a few years he was not Read more…
Charter Schools Development Corporation
The Charter Schools Development Corporation was founded in 1997 as a philanthropically funded nonprofit with a sole focus on addressing one of the most pressing obstacles to charter-school creation today: Read more…
Olin College of Engineering
Franklin Olin didn’t finish school, but he was mechanically gifted and sufficiently studious that at age 22 he passed the entrance exam for Cornell University, where he studied engineering. He Read more…
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…
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…