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National Education Association Foundation to Expand Digital Arts Programs in Schools
Pearson Foundation to Co-Sponsor New Initiative for Teachers, Students
(CSRwire) SAN ANTONIO, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Education Association
Foundation is joining the Digital Art Alliance. They will sponsor, with
The Pearson Foundation, digital arts programs in school districts that are
part of the NEA Foundation's Achievement Gap Sites program. This program
represents a multi-year investment in school quality and leadership
created and managed in coordination with the National Education
Association.
The announcement was made at the National Educational Computing Conference
(NECC) by the Pearson Foundation, the founding partner in the Digital Arts
Alliance, which promotes digital arts in K-12 education through fully
funded and staffed programs delivered directly to schools and community
centers nationwide.
The first schools to take part in the program during the 2008-09 academic
year will be Seattle and Milwaukee. Districts in southern Ohio, which took
part in a 2008 pilot of the program, will also be included.
The NEA Foundation is a non-profit organization created in 1969 by
educators and sustained by contributions from educators, corporate
sponsors and others.
This digital arts initiative enhances the way that teachers and young
people experience and acquire 21st Century skills. The NEA Foundation and
the Pearson Foundation will establish specific implementation plans for
participating Achievement Gap Site districts, and the resulting programs
will include a range of professional development, classroom experiences,
and technological capacity grants supported by Digital Arts Alliance
partners, the Pearson Foundation, the International Society For Technology
in Education (ISTE), and Peachpit.
Together with the Pearson Foundation, the NEA Foundation has established
and continues to create a range of programs, from community outreach in
after school programs in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to a multi-year Digital
Arts Alliance Leadership Institute in Chesapeake, Ohio and throughout the
Appalachia region.
"This innovative, collaborative approach, that both builds on the
knowledge of teachers and school district officials and brings in support
and resources from the community and corporate sponsors, is just the
combination that will take public education to the next level," said
Harriet Sanford, CEO and President, The NEA Foundation. "This project fits
perfectly with our mission to advance student achievement by investing in
public education."
"The NEA Foundation demonstrates a commitment to supporting excellence
in education by addressing issues that matter most to educators and to the
communities they serve," said Mark Nieker, president, the Pearson
Foundation. "Through their work with the Digital Arts Alliance, they
continue to demonstrate the importance of digital arts to the profession
of teaching."
About The Digital Arts Alliance
Each year, the Digital Arts Alliance makes it possible for more than
15,000 students and their teachers to experience firsthand how laptop
computers, video production equipment, and the latest mobile-phone
technologies are changing the ways young people can organize, present, and
share information and issues that matter to them. Alliance members believe
that using technologies to enhance personal expression creates an expanded
kind of literacy, often referred to as 21st Century literacy, which people
-- especially young people -- already use in their everyday lives.
About the NEA Foundation
Created by the members of the National Education Association in 1969, The
NEA Foundation is a nonprofit, 501 (c)(3) organization that offers
programs and grants that support educators' efforts to increase student
achievement, inspire classroom innovation, salute excellence in education,
and provide professional development. For more information, visit www.neafoundation.org.
About the Pearson Foundation
The Pearson Foundation extends Pearson's commitment to education by
partnering with leading nonprofit, civic, and business organizations to
provide financial, organizational, and publishing assistance across the
globe. The Foundation aims to make a difference by sponsoring innovative
educational programs and extending its educational expertise to help in
classrooms and in local communities. More information on the Pearson
Foundation can be found at www.pearsonfoundation.org.
For more information please contact:
Adam Ray
The Pearson Foundation
+1-415-533-1005
www.pearsoned.com
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