Experts say IBM’s Reinventing Education program has raised the quality of teaching and learning in 24 locations in the United States and in twelve international sites.

Reinventing Education

Reinventing Education: IBM’s award-winning model school reform program

Improving education tops IBM’s

philanthropic agenda

IBMiscommittedtoimprovingthe

qualityofeducationfortheworld’sstu-

dents.ThroughReinventingEducation,

IBM’sUS$75millionphilanthropicinitia-

tive,thequalityofteachingand

learningacrosstheUnitedStatesand

intwelvecountrieshasbeendemon-

strablyimproved.

Rigorous,independentevaluations

fromtheCenterforChildren&

TechnologyandtheHarvardBusiness

Schooldocumentthatoursignificant

investmentoftechnologyandtechnical

expertiseishavingapositive,measur-

ableimpactonourschoolpartners.It’s

alsoaone-of-a-kindproject:IBMisthe

onlycorporationanywheretolauncha

full-scale,long-termefforttoadvance

systemiceducationreform.

“IBM’s Reinventing Education program has produced successful solutions that are dismantling long-standing barriers to public school reform—barriers like how teachers are trained, how information is shared and used, and how learning is measured. But more, this evaluation revealed that the intense partnership process which distinguished Reinventing Education from other school reform efforts led to real change in the way schools went about the business of teaching children.” –Center for Children and Technology’s three-year evaluation of IBM’s Reinventing Education Program

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Reinventing Education Delivers Results

FollowingthefulldeploymentofIBM’s

ReinventingEducationactivitiesin

WestVirginia,headlinesacrossthe

stateannouncedthatstudentsin

grades7through11weremakingsub-

stantialgainsinallcoreacademic

subjects.Updatedstudiesreleasedin

thespringof2004documentedthat

WestVirginia’sstudentsarecontinuing

toimprovetheiracademicscores.

Anindependentevaluationofthepro-

graminIrelanddocumentedanumber

ofpositiveimpactsoftheproject,

includingimprovedteacherconfi-

denceandcompetenceintheuse

andintegrationoftechnology,improve-

mentsintheoveralllearning

environmentforstudents,betterclass-

roommanagement,improvedteacher

communicationandcollaboration,and

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Since 2004, Reinventing Education has grown from 12 schools in four major Chinese cities, to more than 400 schools across the country.

thestrengtheningofhome,school,

andcommunitylinks.

Reinventing Education fosters

systemic change

Collectively,IBM’sReinventing

Educationinitiativeaddressnearly

everyaspectofeducation—home-

schoolcommunication,classroom

instruction,teachertrainingandstu-

dentassessment.

Italsoaddressesschoolprofessionals’

effortstomoreefficientlymanageand

analyzethemassiveamountsofdata

schoolscollect,soeducatorscan

makebetterteachingdecisionsfor

students.

“IBMdevelopedReinventing

Educationbecausewebelievedtech-

nologycouldhavethesameimpact

oneducationthatithashadonother

fieldsbutonlyifteachersandadminis-

tratorshadaccesstoitsfullpower,”

saidStanleyS.Litow,vicepresident,

IBMCorporateCitizenship&

CorporateAffairs.“Reinventing

Educationhelpsschoolsanddistricts

createeffectivewaystoadaptthe

poweroftechnologytotheirown

needsandthensharetheresultswith

otherschoolsanddistricts.Theinno-

vationandknowledgeeconomyhas

generatednewrequirementsforeven

higherlevelsofskillsandeducation,

andeverycountrymustrespondand

deliverstudentswiththetalentsfor

leadershiprequiredinthe21st

Century,”saidMr.Litow.

Thisinitiative,focusedonthecritical

issueofeducationreform,isanexam-

pleofIBM’snumerousinnovation

activitiestojoininventionandinsight-

-alldesignedtoproduceimportant,

newvalue.Thisisattheheartofwhat

weareasacompany.IBMisleading

arevolutionincorporatecitizenshipby

contributinginnovativesolutionsand

strategiesthatwillfacilitateincreased

collaborationandhelptransformand

empowerourglobalcommunities.

OureffortsinthisareareflectIBM’s

businessfocusaroundfacilitating

operationalinnovationandimplement-

ingagloballyintegratedenterprise.

Atpartnerschoolsaroundtheworld,

teachersareutilizinginnovativeedu-

cationaltechnologydevelopedbyIBM

thatisnowdrivingsuccessfulschool

reformprogramsinvolvingmorethan

100,000teachersandmillionsof

students.

For more information on IBM

Corporate Citizenship and Corporate

Affairs, visit ibm.com/ibm/ibmgives

or call 914-499-1900.

“There are very few examples of a sustained, sweeping long-term approach that attempts to really transform the nature of a social institution like education. IBM is a role model and a pioneer in that regard. Each one of these projects is not simply a local solution that works for that school system; each one of them is a process, a platform, that is transferable immediately all over the world.”

—Rosabeth Moss Kanter Professor Harvard Business School