Learn To Be Foundation
Nonprofit
20,000 one-on-one tutoring requests and over 11,000 hours of free tutoring Over 600 tutors in 49 states Partnerships in Los Angeles: Dorris Place Elementary, School On Wheels, UCLA Community School, Sixth Avenue Elementary, Pio Pico Elementary Partnerships around the nation: Fox Tech High School (Texas), Say Yes (New York), PS161 (New York), Harmony Elementary (Texas), Clintondale H … Read More
- 20,000 one-on-one tutoring requests and over 11,000 hours of free tutoring
- Over 600 tutors in 49 states
- Partnerships in Los Angeles: Dorris Place Elementary, School On Wheels, UCLA Community School, Sixth Avenue Elementary, Pio Pico Elementary
- Partnerships around the nation: Fox Tech High School (Texas), Say Yes (New York), PS161 (New York), Harmony Elementary (Texas), Clintondale High School (Michigan), Manistee High School (Michigan)
- Launched Hulu Commercial in September of 2009
- 17 Learn To Be University Chapters: Boston University, Cornell University, Emory University, Harvard University, Northwestern University, Purdue University, Syracuse University, Texas A&M University, University of Arizona, University of California at Los Angeles, University of California at San Diego, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas at Dallas, Wellesley College, University of Michigan
- Winner of Harvard Business School Social Entrepreneurship Award
- Winner of Bannerman Foundation Award
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Idea about how to make LA a better place for Education, submitted by this organization in the 2013 challenge.
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Crowdsourcing Education To Provide Free Oneonone Online Tutoring For Underserved Communities
PROJECT SUMMARY
- Aim to improve the current Learn To Be model of free, one-on-one, online tutoring for underserved communities
- Implement an Adaptive and Persistent Problem Module (APPM) for students and integrate it into online classroom
- Provide practice problems in almost any math, science and language arts topic
- Track time needed for student to complete each problem
- Create adaptive algorithm, in which problems get more diff... Learn more