News Brief
NGLC Announces $5.4 Million in Grants Supporting 13 Breakthrough Models for College Readiness and Completion
By Abby HexterNext Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC), an initiative dedicated to improving college readiness and completion, has announced grants totaling $5.4 million for 13 new models of personalized, blended learning at the secondary and postsecondary levels.
Marking the final installment in its third wave of investments, focused on comprehensive, breakthrough models for improving college readiness and completion, NGLC has now provided $30 million in support of 78 secondary and postsecondary education innovators across the country since its first wave of funding in 2011. NGLC's thirty Wave III investments (13 new and 17 previously announced grantees) target institutions and organizations launching new instructional models that incorporate technology to accelerate and enhance the development of new, personalized, competency-based, blended models, reinforced by business models that can support sustainable expansion and adoption plans.
NGLC hopes to enrich the landscape of bold experiments in learning design and to inform the development of innovative practices in other schools and colleges.
Information about the grantees and the models they are planning to build - along with, over time, all of the research and lessons gained from their experience - can be found at NGLC's newly redesigned website, www.nextgenlearning.org.
Grantees Developing Breakthrough Models for College Readiness are creating new, whole-school solutions to improve student performance across secondary education. The eight new grantees will receive $150,000 pre-launch planning grants, and each grantee will be eligible for up to $300,000 in one-to-one matching funds.