Raising standards to prepare students for college
and the workplace
LITERACY
Priority will be given to states
that have adopted common,
state-developed, college-
and career-ready standards
Competitive subgrants to high
need districts to support
comprehensive literacy
programs
Improve literacy instruction
Science, Technology,
Engineering, and
Mathematics(STEM)
Providing substantial support to
high-need districts in implementing
high-quality instruction in at least
mathematics or science and may also
include technology or engineering
Use technology to
address student
learning challenges
support comprehensive
STEM instruction in the
grades and schools with
the greatest local need
align other local, state, and federal resources
with their plan to improve instruction in STEM
subjects; propose to implement programs that
have the strongest available evidence; propose
to implement activities in the schools with the
greatest need; or have a plan for sustaining the
strategy.
ENSURING A WELL-ROUNDED EDUCATION
strengthen the teaching and learning of
arts, foreign languages, history and civics,
fnancial literacy, environmental education,
and other subjects.
improving student
performance in one or
more of these subjects
integrate teaching and learning across
academic subjects; to use technology to
address student learning challenges; and
at the high school level, to work with
colleges or universities to ensure that
coursework is truly aligned with those
institutions’ expectations
COLLEGE PATHWAYS AND ACCELERATED LEARNING
increase access to
accelerated learning
opportunities for students
Carry out activities that help students
prepare for, or directly provide,
college-level work (including early-college
or dual-enrollment programs, Advanced
Placement (AP) programs, and
International Baccalaureate programs),
other accelerated learning programs, and
gifed and talented programs in elementary
or middle schools
ACTIVITIES TO STRENGTHEN A COMPLETE EDUCATION
Carry out additional activities to
improve teaching and learning in
academic subjects