Education-related grants comprise two-thirds of our giving. We are committed to improving student performance and increasing access to education so that children and adolescents everywhere have the opportunity for life-long success.
The
United States educational system is plagued by a persistent achievement gap among students from different economic circumstances, and racial and ethnic backgrounds. To close this gap, improve student performance and increase graduation rates among affected students, we work to:
From early childhood through adolescence, impoverished school children in
India face multiple educational hurdles including poor attendance, high drop-out rates and radically uneven school quality. To help these children achieve the educations and skills that will enable them to break out of poverty, we fund large-scale interventions that:
- Help students achieve grade-specific learning levels through in-school and after-school academic support
- Promote better teaching processes, improved leadership and teacher capabilities, and more sustainable school operations through integrated school excellence programs
- Provide employable skills development and training for impoverished adolescents who might otherwise be unemployed after high school graduation
- Improve quality school options through better teaching processes, improved leadership and teacher capabilities, and more sustainable school operations
In South Africa, barely one in ten students qualifies for university and only five percent graduate. Our goal is to ensure that young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are admitted to university, graduate and obtain long-term employment. Our initial investments are in the Dell Young Leaders scholarship program, which provides holistic support to vulnerable South African university students to help them through graduation and beyond.