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Generalist AI gives answers, removes friction, and does the thinking. That’s great for productivity—but when AI does the cognitive work, students don’t build the skill. AI Friction Labs offers a solution: Socratic dialogues, role-plays, and scenarios that resist easy resolution. Students do the thinking. The AI provides the resistance. The transcript becomes the assessment—a full record of how each student navigated difficulty.
Educators often pause at the end of the school year to celebrate as a school community and reflect on the year. Students also need opportunities to connect and process before heading off for the summer.
The McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation promotes best practices through cooperative and sustained commitment to improved teaching and active learning. As such, the foundation values proposals aimed at concurrently boosting student understanding and proficiency and instilling a passion for lifelong learning.
Each year high school students across the country start a journey to sharpen their skills through the NAACP’s Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO). From visual arts and business to performing and culinary arts, students work with community-based volunteers to develop projects and performances. The experience culminates in local and national events where students compete for scholarships and other rewards.
Inspired by the production of Alicia Keys’ Hell’s Kitchen musical, and leveraging the power of the arts, the Kaleidoscope Dreams Foundation (KDF) collaborates with community-based organizations to build and share multidisciplinary programming for historically underrepresented communities. The foundation will offer fellowships, free student tickets, and creative programs nationwide in partnership with the musical’s national tour.
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation offers personalized, generous scholarship and educational support to exceptionally promising seventh-grade students from families across the nation who have financial need.
Math fuels innovation and progress. It enables us to expand the frontiers of science and technology and to solve the world’s biggest challenges. More children from more communities have the potential to be a part of that progress, but many don’t receive the support they need to develop their mathematical talent. National Math Stars is changing that.
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A ten-year, fully funded program, National Math Stars supports and inspires extraordinary students’ love of mathematics from as early as second grade through the end of high school. Over the ten years, the organization invests more than $100,000 in support and resources in each Star to create a pathway for them to reach the frontiers of mathematics, science, and technology. The program includes math mentorship, family advising, community gatherings, and funding.
National Math Stars is now accepting applications for the 2025 cohort. Applications are available in English and Spanish.
The first stage of the application includes an information form with short answers about the student’s interest in the program, demographic information, and existing test scores (if available). Only applications received by June 15, 2025, will be considered for the 2025 cohort. In late June, all eligible applicants will be asked to complete an online problem-solving assessment that takes approximately one to two hours. In mid-July, finalists will be invited to take a (fully funded) proctored examination and complete both student and parent interviews via videoconference. All applicants will be notified in mid-August, and the 2025 cohort of Stars will be announced at that time.
Educators are invited to work with National Math Stars to identify potential Stars at their school or in their district. There is no cost to apply to National Math Stars and no cost to participate for those admitted to the program.
The Stanford [University] Middle School Scholars Program (SMSSP) prepares students for a rigorous high school education with a three-week online summer course and weekly online afterschool meetings during fall. The program serves students from low-income backgrounds in grades 6 and 7 who reside in and attend school in the United States.
A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool from the nonprofit Digital Promise and edtech company Learning Innovation Catalyst (LINC) applies education research to generate different lesson plans for meeting the unique learning needs of each student.
Cignition is a K–12 virtual tutoring program led by experienced educators who produce proven, repeatable results in student success for math and English language arts.