FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                    Contact:  Karen Ahearn

June 14, 2006                                                                                          Communications Director

                                                                                                              412-481-7320; kahearn@assetinc.org

ASSET Receives Grant from the Grable Foundation

PITTSBURGH – (June 14, 2006) – ASSET (Achieving Student Success through Excellence in Teaching) Inc. has received a two-year $200,000 grant from the Grable Foundation for operating support of ASSET’s systemic education improvement programs in southwest Pennsylvania.

Funding from the Grable Foundation will enable ASSET to strengthen its infrastructure in order to deepen the impact of education improvement within the 48 school districts, charter and private schools it currently serves.  “This support will also assist ASSET in helping more schools and teachers continuously improve teaching and learning as they prepare for the science PSSA tests to be piloted in 2006-07 and administered as a No Child Left Behind requirement in 2007-08,” said ASSET’s Executive Director Reeny Davison, Ed.D. 

ASSET provides K-8 standards-based science and technology materials and teacher professional development programs that directly impact 3,000 teachers and 125,000 students.  These students in hundreds of classrooms throughout western Pennsylvania now learn science the same way using standards-based learning materials and are taught by teachers who receive professional development directly connected to a standards-based curriculum. For more information on ASSET Inc., visit assetinc.org or call 412-481-7320.

About ASSET:

Established by Bayer Corporation and other community partners in 1994, ASSET Inc. is an independent, nonprofit education reform initiative dedicated to continuously improve the abilities of teachers with initial efforts in K-8 science and technology education. The largest program of its kind in the state, ASSET is the only one of 22 educational reform programs originally funded by the National Science Foundation that has achieved operational self-sustaining status.