Making the Early Grades Matter: Seven Ways to Improve Kindergarten Through Grade 2

SRC conducted a national landscape to illuminate gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities for which philanthropic investment could catalyze equitable improvements in K-2 practices at scale and aligned to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s existing strategy. In partnership with the foundation’s Early Learning Team, SRC identified and workshopped the highest opportunity approaches to shape a proposed equity-centered investment strategy.

 

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Soumya Bhat
Principal Associate

Mimi Howard
Advisor for Strategy and Systems

Kate McKenney


Senior Associate

Eugenia McRae
Associate

Nicole Sharpe
Senior Director

 
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