Teachers College Columbia University


Awarded Grants

2016
$108,500

To support updates and dissemination of the Understanding Fiscal Responsibility curriculum to help high school students understand the facts, significance, and consequences of the nation's fiscal challenges.

2015
$30,000

To support promotion, implementation and evaluation of a new curriculum to help high school students understand the facts, significance, and consequences of the nation's fiscal challenges.

2014
$190,000

To support promotion, implementation and evaluation of a new curriculum to help high school students understand the facts, significance, and consequences of the nation's fiscal challenges

2012
$550,000

To support promotion, implementation and evaluation of a new curriculum to help high school students understand the facts, significance and consequences of the nation's fiscal challenges.

2010
$2,447,596

To support the development of a new, comprehensive social studies and mathematics curriculum to help high school students across the United States understand the facts, significance, and consequences of America's fiscal challenges.

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