The Initiative on Improving K-12 Education

Among the greatest challenges in the United States today is the need to improve our public education system. The failure to provide effective education to all of our children not only squanders a national resource— our children’s potential—but also widens the gap between those who thrive and those who fail in society. At Stanford, we are working to address this challenge.

Through Stanford’s Initiative on Improving K–12 Education, scholars from across the university—from the schools of business, law, medicine, engineering, earth sciences, and humanities and sciences; the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; and the Hoover Institution, are joining with experts in the School of Education to approach the problem from multiple perspectives. And they are partnering with practitioners and policymakers to forge innovative and practical solutions.

Stanford is committed to applying the broad expertise and resources of the university to identify and demonstrate strategies for making fundamental improvements in the way our nation educates its children.

Improving K-12 Education: A Multidisciplinary Initiative at Stanford is one of five campus-wide interdisciplinary initiatives, sponsored by the Stanford Challenge, the others being human health, the environment and sustainability, the international initiative, and the arts initiative. Please download an overview of The Initiative on Improving K-12 Education.

SPARKING NEW COLLABORATIONS AND SOLUTIONS

Across the disciplines on the Stanford campus today, there is significant faculty and student interest and activity in projects related to K–12 education. To harness this energy and to stimulate innovative approaches to the most pressing issues in K–12 education, Stanford is developing a K–12 education venture fund program to provide seed funding to interdisciplinary teams of scholars pursuing promising and potentially transformative research and development projects.