Home › Education › Policy Initiatives › National Initiatives

Stimulus Funds and Global Learning

Share

Image: quisp65/iStockPhoto.com.
enlarge image

Image: quisp65/iStockPhoto.com.

Stimulus funds for education--including $3 billion for school improvement and $5 billion in the Race to the Top fund--will be distributed this summer. Susan Frost discusses examples of how funds can be used, and how to get your ideas to the table.

Frost goes on to explain there are four priority areas identified by the Obama administration that have particular significance in creating a world-class education system:

  1. Standards and international benchmarking
  2. Data and assessment
  3. Teacher effectiveness
  4. School improvement

You will also learn about the very important role that partnerships or consortia--among states, districts, and non-profits--can play in the revisioning of excellence and innovation in schools.

Finally, Frost reminds us that the stimulus funds are largely a one-time investment. Think about how the money can be used for start-up, but include in your proposal plans for sustaining and scaling up the work.

Hear the interview:

[asset|aid=543|format=video|formatter=asset_media|title=frost_stimulus.mp3|width=320|height=20|resizable=true|align=none]

Susan Frost has been following educational policy for 30 years. She served as a senior advisor to U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley and is currently a consultant on education policy, specializing in issues such as middle grades reform, adolescent literacy, international benchmarking and promoting the teaching of critical foreign languages.

Shari Albright is an executive director in Asia Society's Education Department.

Post new comment

Your comments are welcome, please adhere to our guidelines

Be respectful. Personal attacks will not be tolerated; nor will profane, abusive or threatening posts.

Keep it short (150 words or less), Stay on topic.

Asia Society reserves the right to moderate all comments and remove or edit for guideline violations. Thank you.

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
Type the characters you see in this picture. (verify using audio)
Type the characters you see in the picture above; if you can't read them, submit the form and a new image will be generated. Not case sensitive.