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Grants in the Education Program promote long-term institutional or field development, reform, or knowledge creation in four priority areas: improving achievement, improving educational outcomes in California, the open educational resources initiative, and opportunity.

The Education Program funds policy studies, research, development, demonstrations, evaluations, dissemination, and public engagement to accomplish its objectives. An individual grant should develop knowledge usable beyond its boundaries and should add clear and substantial value to accomplishing the goals of a Program priority.

The four Program priorities are listed below. To see a brief rationale and examples of grants that the Foundation has recently funded, click on the name of the priority. For additional information about Program priorities, please see the Education Program Strategic Plan and the Program Plans for 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006 , 2006-2007 and 2007-2008.

The link to the African Education Initiative reported previously under Universal Education has been removed. You can read about this work under the Global Development site at http://www.hewlett.org/Programs/GlobalAffairs/QualEd/

Education Program Priorities:

Improving Achievement

Increase student achievement by developing, demonstrating, evaluating, and disseminating approaches to systematically improve K-12 classroom instruction in urban school systems. Please note, we are not accepting unsolicited LOIs or proposals in this area.

Improving
Educational
Outcomes in
California

Improve the quality of K-12 education in California and strengthen the California community college system, while altering transitions between high school and college to eliminate barriers to student attainment.

Open Educational Resources Initiative

Improve access to exemplary educational content by making high-quality open educational resources freely available on the Web. Demonstrate the capacity of open educational resources to transorm teaching and learning.

Opportunity

At the Foundation's initiative only, Opportunity grants are made that support the overall goals of the Foundation yet are not directly aligned with one of the other three program areas. Please note, we are not accepting unsolicited LOIs or proposals in this area.

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Last revised: 7/18/2008

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Improving Achievement	Increase student achievement by developing, demonstrating, evaluating, and disseminating approaches to systematically improve K-12 classroom instruction in urban school systems. Please note, we are not accepting unsolicited LOIs or proposals in this area.
Improving Educational Outcomes in California	Improve the quality of K-12 education in California and strengthen the California community college system, while altering transitions between high school and college to eliminate barriers to student attainment.
Open Educational Resources Initiative	Improve access to exemplary educational content by making high-quality open educational resources freely available on the Web. Demonstrate the capacity of open educational resources to transorm teaching and learning.
Opportunity	At the Foundation's initiative only, Opportunity grants are made that support the overall goals of the Foundation yet are not directly aligned with one of the other three program areas. Please note, we are not accepting unsolicited LOIs or proposals in this area.