Education at the Kauffman Foundation

Insights

Helping Local School Boards Understand the Importance of METS Education

Joseph S. Villani of the National School Boards Association and Peyton M. West of the American Association for the Advancement of Science talk about forming the new organizational partnership to determine what school boards want and need to know about METS education and to address those needs head-on.
Learning vs. Education: A New Way to Think About Preparing the Next Generation

Dennis W. Cheek, Vice President, Education, explains how the Kauffman Foundation keeps the concept of learning as the central focus of how we think about, evaluate, plan, and execute our grantmaking related to children and youth.

Opportunity Knocks Materials Available

Session video and PowerPoint presentations from the Opportunity Knocks: Maximizing Dollars For Education Improvement in the Kansas City Region Conference are now available, along with a listing of key Web resources.
Reserve Your Spot at the MINDSET Operations Research Workshop

The Kauffman Foundation is now taking reservations for a workshop to be held at the Kauffman Confernce Center June 10-19, 2009 for training in MINDSET (Mathematics INstruction using Decision Science and Engineering Tools). MINDSET is a non-calculus fourth-year mathematics curriculum that seeks to enhance a student's mathematical ability and improve a student's attitude toward mathematics by using mathematical-based decision-making tools to solve real world problems.
Science Article Makes Case for Teaching Through Video Games

Merrilea Mayo, director of education at the Kauffman Foundation, is the author of an article in Science magazine, in which she presents the potential for using interactive video games as an aid to teaching science, technology, engineering, and math.

The Future of the Research University: Meeting the Global Challenges of the 21st Century

At the 2008 Kauffman-Max Planck Institute Summit, more than a dozen speakers from Europe, the United States, and Israel, representing some of the finest institutions and freshest thinking on the planet, convened to explore in depth the ways research universities can foster entrepreneurship in the societies around them. The result is this unprecedented volume of essays and discussion synopses, which provides ideas and practical examples for the entrepreneurial research university.
Math, Science and Technology: Important, But Not For Me

Kauffman Foundation Announces 2009 Young Scholars Program Recipients (01/5/09)

The 2009 recipients of the Kauffman Young Scholars Program that recognizes the achievements of young scholars who are making significant contributions to research in entrepreneurship were presented at the Allied Social Science Associations' annual meeting in San Francisco, Calif. on Jan. 3, 2009.
Collegiate Inventors Competition Recognizes Top Student Inventors (11/16/08)

Russell Simmons Kicks Off 'Race To Be' Entrepreneurship Competition At NYSE On Oct. 2 (09/29/08)