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Education: Girl Taking Notes 

Microsoft is a proud sponsor of The Seattle Foundation's GiveBIG on May 2. Microsoft programs in education have a focus on helping youth and young adults around the world obtain the skills that they need, connect them to opportunities, and support them in pursuing their dreams. Learn more about Microsoft's work in education at www.microsoft.com.

 

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Community Day School Association (CDSA) »CDSA is the largest Before and After-School Child Enrichment, Kindergarten Readiness, & Summer Camp Learning Program operating within Seattle Public Schools.
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Treehouse »Even the best foster parents are hard-pressed to meet the needs of a child suffering from abuse or neglect, and the state covers only 60% of the cost of basic care. Treehouse fills the gaps for kids in foster care.
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Kindering Center »Kindering Center targets children ages 0-3 whose development is affected by biological disabilities or environmental factors that impact an array of skill areas including cognitive, motor, communication, feeding, and behavior.
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Recent Foundation Activities
Promise Neighborhood planning efforts
The Seattle Foundation has been coordinating local funders to support Promise Neighborhood planning efforts in King County. Two local organizations, Neighborhood House (focusing on the High Point community) and Southwest Youth and Family Services (focusing on the White Center community) have been leading efforts in their communities to establish cradle to career educational attainment projects.
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Investment Initiatives Support Academic Success of Seattle Public Schools' Children
The Alliance for Education seeks to help children in Seattle Public Schools achieve academic success. The organization does this through investment initiatives related to college readiness, community engagement, school board and staff development, and data assessment.
Washington leads the nation in jobs for people with bachelor degrees in science and engineering, but is 38th in the number of students graduating with these de­grees.
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Opening Doors to Student Success
This 12-page policy brief describes the different strategies tested, discusses what MDRC has learned from Opening Doors, and offers some suggestions to policymakers and practitioners for moving forward.
A Stronger Nation through Higher Education
This report reports progress toward the Lumina Foundation for Education's goal of increasing higher education attainment rates to 60 percent by the year 2025.
CCER releases its Baseline Report on the state of education in King County and South Seattle
The Road Map Project's Baseline Report urges action from all sectors of the community to achieve dramatic improvements in education.
The Strengths and Challenges of Community Organizing as an Education Reform Strategy
This new study finds that "by leveraging the collective power of parents, youth, residents, and institutions, community organizing can alter longstanding power imbalances and patterns of inequality that result in failing schools."
Building A Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic
Some states and school districts are raising their high school graduation rates with scalable solutions in our public schools.