For immediate release Contact: Karen Ahearn
April 22, 2004 Communications Manager
ASSET receives grant from the Grable Foundation
ASSET (Allegheny Schools Science Education and Technology) Inc. has received a two-year $200,000 grant from the Grable Foundation. The grant is in support of ASSET's programs designed to further strengthen science education in classrooms in southwest Pennsylvania and to expand the successful inquiry-based model into new geographic areas statewide and beyond.
ASSET currently provides K-8 standards-based science materials and teacher professional development programs that serve 63,000 students in 39 school districts and private schools. Students in about 180 ASSET member schools throughout these districts now experience the same curriculum in their science classrooms and are taught by teachers who receive professional development directly linked to the curriculum and featuring a focus on inquiry-based 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. It is an independent, nonprofit education reform initiative dedicated to continuously improve the teaching and learning process of teachers with initial efforts in K-8 science education.