• $100,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 1 year)

  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Alliance for Excellent Education works to improve national and state policies so that all students can graduate ready to succeed in college, work, and citizenship. An advocate of online learning, the Alliance also focuses on the changing nature of learning and embraces the Connected Learning principles that underlie the Foundation's digital media and learning work. This project will build a policy framework with learning as core and technology as a tool, build on growing interest in digital media and learning, and engage policymakers to support more ways for young people to succeed in school, work, and life.

• $300,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Inactive Grant)

  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Alliance for Excellent Education works to improve national and state policies so students graduate from high school ready to succeed in college, work, and citizenship. It will use this grant to educate and motivate national and state policymakers, educators, and other decision-makers to support more opportunities for young people to engage with digital media and learning that allow for interest-driven, participatory, and hands-on learning experiences, the underpinnings of the Foundation's digital media and learning work.

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Alliance for Excellent Education $400,000 between 2009 and 2012.