Jack Kent Cooke Foundation


SCHOLARSHIPS

  • Foundation announces 2008 College Scholarship Recipients. Click here to read the press release and to view the recipients' bios.


    FOUNDATION IN THE NEWS

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Smart & Bored  Ignore high-achieving students and they may end up frustrated, disciplined for bad behavior or even depressed. At best, they're bored; at worst, they won't make it to graduation...


 

 

 

Comm - NY Times Math SuggestsMath Suggests College Frenzy Will Soon Ease  High school seniors nationwide are anxiously awaiting the verdicts from the colleges of their choice later this month. But though it may not be of much solace to them, in just a few years the admissions frenzy is likely to ease. It's simply a matter of demographics.      


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Gifted students are often ignored due to efforts to raise other students' test scores  Brielle's experience exposes a cruel irony of NCLB policy: High-achieving kids who easily can pass the standardized test requirements are often overlooked as schools focus on raising the scores of those students in the middle of the curve.

 
 
TIME
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No Gifted Child Left Behind?  First the good news: It turns out, millions of kids from low-income families are acing standardized tests.  Now the bad news...
 
 

 
Groundbreaking Foundation Report Featured.  Read the full report: Achievement Trap:  How America Is Failing Millions of High-Achieving Students From Lower-Income Families.
  • Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Awards $2.23 Million for High-Achieving Low-Income Elementary School Students. Read the press release.
  • Leadership and Academic Excellence Earn Students 2007 Graduate Scholarships.  Read the press release.
  • Foundation Rolls Out $1.5 Million Grant Initiative Supporting Twice-exceptional Students.  Read the press release.

 

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