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Higher Achievement

Nonprofit or community organization

Last modified: February 22, 2013, 6:31 PM

Description

Higher Achievement provides middle school students year-round academic training and extends learning opportunities for middle school youth, guaranteeing underserved yet motivated students equal access to success in both school and life. Research from across the nation consistently shows middle school to be a time of extraordinary risk for children. As early as 1975, the founders of Higher Achievement saw the gross educational inequities and the vulnerability of youth during middle school transition. In response, they developed an intensive, rigorous, year-round academic enrichment program for middle school youth that promotes a culture that values academic achievement and a theory of change that is rooted in academic opportunity. Higher Achievement is partnering with new communities to bring its model to address the middle school challenge and the achievement gap in disadvantaged, urban communities

The organization has received numerous awards, but the most important measure of success is the results achieved by the Higher Achievement scholars. These results have driven a national growth plan to expand to multiple cities. Pittsburgh is Higher Achievement's third replication community. Higher Achievement hired its Affiliate Executive Director for Pittsburgh in July 2011 and opened its first Achievement Centers in June 2012.

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  • Program Quality and Evaluation VISTA - Job

    Last updated:
    May 21, 2013
    Location:
    Washington, DC, US
    Description:
    Higher Achievement is currently hiring a Program Quality and Evaluation VISTA! About Higher Achievement: Higher Achievement's rigorous afterschool and summer a...

  • Summer Elective Teachers Needed-- DC Metro - Job

    Last updated:
    May 21, 2013
    Location:
    Washington, DC, US
    Description:
    Higher Achievement, a nationally acclaimed nonprofit organization providing after-school academic assistance to students in low-income communities, seeks after-...

  • Summer Elective Teacher- Baltimore - Job

    Last updated:
    May 13, 2013
    Location:
    Baltimore, MD, US
    Description:
    General Description The position of Elective Teacher is a part-time paid position lasting from July 1-August 9, during Higher Achievement's Summer Academy. El...

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Website:
http://www.higherachievement.org
Government ID number:
52-1383374
Phone:
(202) 861-7753
Fax:
(202) 861-7755
Address:
1701 K Street, NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20006, United States

Keywords

Youth, Education

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