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Based on 5 reviews  Reading Partners(Milpitas, CA) Reading Partners’ mission is to foster literacy and a lifelong love of learning by empowering communities to provide the individualized attention that struggling young readers need. According to the 2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress, 90% of fourth-graders in California?s low-income communities could not read at grade level. 65% lacked even basic reading skills. Without intervention, fully half of these children will not graduate from high school. Natiowide research demonstrates they cyclical nature of poverty and illiteracy. Children whose parents are functionally illiterate are twice as likely as their peers to be functionally illiterate themselves. By the time children they are nine years old, these children are already 3 grade levels behind their more affluent peers. |
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Based on 6 reviews AIM HIGH(San Francisco, CA) The mission of Aim High is to provide underserved urban youth with challenging, innovative and highly supportive educational programs, most notably our exemplary summer school. The goal of Aim High is to ensure that our students are well-prepared for success in school, have a deep appreciation for their community, and are aware of the issues—personal, local and environmental—that affect their lives. Our vision is to inspire youth to reach for their dreams. |
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Based on 1 review  Think College Now(Oakland, CA) |
Big Picture Learning(Providence, RI) Big Picture Learning’s mission is to catalyze vital changes in American education by generating and sustaining innovative, personalized schools that work in tandem with the real world of their greater community.
We design break-through public schools, research and replicate new designs for education, train educators to serve as leaders in their schools and communities, and actively engage the public as participants and decision makers in the education of our youth.
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YOUTH SCIENCE INSTITUTE(Los Gatos, CA) YSI’s mission is to inspire enthusiasm for Science and a love of learning. In short, we Partner with Nature to Teach Kids Science! Founded in 1953, YSI is a Silicon Valley leader in providing hands-on life, earth, physical and social science education that directly supports the curriculum delivery needs of classrooms teachers; all of our programs correlate to California State Science Standards. YSI’s key programs include School and Group Programs, After School Science Club and Summer Science Camps. All YSI programs help develop the critical thinking skills that are critical to a child’s academic, and future employment, success. YSI programs help improve academic achievement while connecting children with nature. YSI programs address both the science education crisis and what is popularly known as “nature deficit disorder” with programs that fill the critical gap in science education today. YSI takes its programs to classrooms and the community and also delivers programs at its three Science and Nature Centers at Vasona County Park, Sanborn County Park, and San Jose’s Alum Rock Park, where YSI was founded. |
My New Red Shoes(Burlingame, CA) Homelessness is a serious and growing problem for American children. In San Francisco alone, approximately 1,300 school-aged children experience homelessness each year. This situation has a devastating effect on a child?s education; youth who have experienced homelessness are twice as likely to repeat a grade as other children and are at much higher risk of not attending school, ultimately increasing their chances of repeating the cycle of homelessness in the future. National and local homelessness organizations have repeatedly identified a lack of school clothing as one of the barriers to education for homeless youth both because it is a basic need, and since children feel reluctant to attend school without suitable clothing. By filling this gap, My New Red Shoes increases the likelihood that homeless children will attend and succeed in school while directing precious community resources toward surmounting other barriers to education, including inadequate funding for school supplies, transportation, and family counseling as well as a lack of human resources for tutoring and other volunteer programs that support homeless youth at school. |