Professional Development GrantsAgilent provides support to programs and organizations that are working to increase the quality of science and math instruction
at the middle and high school levels, and increase the availability of highly qualified teachers, including from historically underrepresented groups, in these areas.
Current and past grant recipients include:
- Achieve, Inc.: Mathematics Achievement Partnership, Professional Development
- Association of Science-Technology Centers: Today's Youth - Tomorrow's Educators
- BSCS: Keys to Science
- Chabot Space and Science Center
- Delaware Foundation for Science and Math
- Exploratorium, California
- Keystone Science Center, Colorado
- Leadership and Assistance for Science Education Reform, Washington State
- Math, Engineering and Science Achievement (MESA): Online Professional Development
- The National Alliance of Business (NAB)
The Agilent Technologies Foundation provided funding to the National Alliance of Business (NAB) to sponsor Teaching for Results, a study outlining actions that can be taken to improve instructional quality in K-12 schools across the country. The Agilent funding specifically addresses science and mathematics teaching.
For information about Teaching for Results, please see the NAB website at
http://www.nab.com
|
|
|