The Global Teaching Project’s Advanced STEM Access Program, now in its 7th year, has made remarkable progress due to the efforts of a broad community of educators, community leaders, students, and other stakeholders. Recently, several of those stakeholders wrote to U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to share their experiences …
Scores for the April 2023 AP exams have been released, and Global Teaching Project students who took exams in subjects offered through the Advanced STEM Access Program—AP Biology, AP Computer Science Principles, and AP Physics 1—achieved notable breakthroughs. In some cases, those students became the first ever at their schools …
Average Scores on Widely Used Assessment More than Double Physics students from rural Mississippi high schools who attended the Global Teaching Project’s Advanced STEM Summer Preparatory Program achieved “statistically significant” gains, according to independent assessments conducted by the Center for Research and Evaluation (CERE) at the University of Mississippi. Physics …
Akira DeLoach, a senior at Enterprise High School in rural Mississippi and a student in the Global Teaching Project’s AP Physics 1 class there, has earned admission to the Class of 2026 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Akira plans to major in Mechanical Engineering. Akira’s achievement is extraordinary—MIT …
Matt Dolan, CEO of the Global Teaching Project, was recently featured on Kari Alexander’s podcast, Kari the Light, which profiles ordinary people doing “extraordinary things.”
The Global Teaching Project’s extraordinary Teaching Assistants are a critical, and unique, component of our blended learning model. The Teaching Assistants—Science majors from leading universities—provide substantive instruction for our students, and much more: the Teaching Assistants also are exemplars of achievement, and emissaries from the broader world beyond the rural …
Professor Lisa Urry, lead author of the nation’s most widely used Biology textbook, will serve as lead instructor of the Global Teaching Project’s inaugural Advanced Placement (AP)® Biology course. That course is being offered in the 2021-2022 academic year to promising high school students in rural Mississippi through a pilot …
