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Helios Education Foundation is working with NBC News and other organizations to bring an education "power week" to Miami, Florida. Beginning Friday, May 18 and running through Friday, May 25, Education Nation Miami will include a series of education-focused events and programming across NBC 6, Telemundo network and Telemundo 51.
Watch a live video stream of the Teacher Town Hall Forum on Helios' website at http://www.helios.org beginning at 1pm on Sunday, May 20
The Helios Education Foundation has awarded a $49,926 grant to Improving Fifth Grade Students' Understanding of Rational Numbers, a project instituted by the University of Arizona College of Education.
The statistics are staggering: among 30 developed countries, the U.S. is ranked 25th in math and 21st in science. Literacy is the number-one predictor of a child's ability to succeed in school. In fact, the majority of kids who read below grade level in first grade will most likely still read below grade level in the fourth grade and may never catch up. Now, a new documentary film dares to shed light on the country’s educational system and hopes to spark a social action wave aimed at ensuring a quality educational system for every student in the country.
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The Arizona Community Foundation and Helios Education Foundation proudly announce the award of $500,000 to the National Center for Youth Law. The grant is the fourth award in three years from the Accio Education Fund, a venture capital type of charitable fund created by ACF and Helios. The Fund, which is held and managed at ACF, was established to support the development and expansion of innovative education reform efforts for the benefit of Arizona students, with ACF and Helios contributing equally.
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Over 200 students from across Pinal County Arizona stepped foot on the Central Arizona College (CAC) campus for a day full of hands on science labs, panel discussions and group activities.
The Arizona Rural Education Alliance Foundation hosted the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Field Day with support from CAC.
As colleagues at two local foundations, the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust and Helios Education Foundation, we encourage you to read a new report, "Dropped? Latino Education and Arizona's Economic Future."
Why "Dropped" with a question mark?
Eleven years ago Morrison Institute for Public Policy published "Five Shoes Waiting To Drop on Arizona's Future."
The lagging graduation rates of Latinos represented one of those shoes that the report warned could drop, damaging Arizona's economic future.
That shoe is a Size 13 today. It is perilously positioned to land, not just on our Latino friends and neighbors, but on all of us.
