Reinventing Education
Reinventing Education: IBM’s award-
winning model school reform program
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.
Improving education tops IBM’s
philanthropic agenda Following the full deployment of IBM’s
IBM is committed to improving the
quality of education for the world’s stu-
dents. Through Reinventing Education,
IBM’s US$75 million philanthropic initia-
tive, the quality of teaching and
learning across the United States and
in twelve countries has been demon-
strably improved.
Rigorous, independent evaluations
from the Center for Children &
Technology and the Harvard Business
School document that our significant
investment of technology and technical
expertise is having a positive, measur-
able impact on our school partners. It’s
also a one-of-a-kind project: IBM is the
only corporation anywhere to launch a
full-scale, long-term effort to advance
systemic education reform.
“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
Reinventing Education Delivers Results distinguished Reinventing
Education from other
Reinventing Education activities in
school reform efforts
West Virginia, headlines across the
state announced that students in
led to real change in the
grades 7 through 11 were making sub- way schools went about
stantial gains in all core academic the business of teaching
subjects. Updated studies released in
children.”
the spring of 2004 documented that
West Virginia’s students are continuing
–Center for Children and Technology’s
to improve their academic scores. three-year evaluation of IBM’s Reinventing
Education Program
An independent evaluation of the pro-
gram in Ireland documented a number
of positive impacts of the project,
including improved teacher confi-
dence and competence in the use
and integration of technology, improve-
ments in the overall learning
environment for students, better class-
room management, improved teacher
communication and collaboration, 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.
the strengthening of home, school,
and community links.
Reinventing Education fosters
systemic change deliver students with the talents for
Collectively, IBM’s Reinventing
Education initiative address nearly
every aspect of education—home-
school communication, classroom
instruction, teacher training and stu-
dent assessment.
It also addresses school professionals’
efforts to more efficiently manage and
analyze the massive amounts of data
schools collect, so educators can
make better teaching decisions for
students.
“IBM developed Reinventing
Education because we believed tech-
nology could have the same impact
on education that it has had on other
fields but only if teachers and adminis-
trators had access to its full power,”
said Stanley S. Litow, vice president,
IBM Corporate Citizenship &
Corporate Affairs. “Reinventing
Education helps schools and districts
create effective ways to adapt the
power of technology to their own
needs and then share the results with
other schools and districts. The inno-
vation and knowledge economy has
generated new requirements for even
higher levels of skills and education,
and every country must respond and
leadership required in the 21st
Century,” said Mr. Litow.
This initiative, focused on the critical
issue of education reform, is an exam-
ple of IBM’s numerous innovation
activities to join invention and insight -
- all designed to produce important,
new value. This is at the heart of what
we are as a company. IBM is leading
a revolution in corporate citizenship by
contributing innovative solutions and
strategies that will facilitate increased
collaboration and help transform and
empower our global communities.
Our efforts in this area reflect IBM’s
business focus around facilitating
operational innovation and implement-
ing a globally integrated enterprise.
At partner schools around the world,
teachers are utilizing innovative edu-
cational technology developed by IBM
that is now driving successful school
reform programs involving more than
100,000 teachers and millions of
students.
“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
For more information on IBM
Corporate Citizenship and Corporate
Affairs, visit ibm.com/ibm/ibmgives
or call 914-499-1900.
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