Finally, we challenge all 4th graders to take this challenge on regardless of whether your school or teachers are participating. It is your future we are all talking about here. Organize yourselves, make noise. Join other like thinkers. Find ways to help yourselves. Ask for help when needed. Go for it!
Some teachers other than 4th grade math teachers might feel slighted by this focus on 4th grade math. We challenge you in two special ways: Do not act in a way that waters down the effort on 4th grade math by competing for resources, etc. 4th grade math is just the start. It is planned…
Senior citizens have done much to make the world the way it is now. We challenge you to not stop now. There are roughly 4.5 million 4th graders in the US and more than 5 times that number of “active” seniors. We challenge you seniors to get involved, volunteer to coach or mentor students (we…
This is addressed to the Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerbergs, Eric Schmidts, etc. of the world who generally support efforts to make the world a better place for everyone, to please get behind this initiative with a vengeance. We challenge you to get personally involved. We challenge you to fix the things you think can be…
We challenge businesses and organizations that offer products and services valued by young people to join in promoting the initiative and student learning. For example, a sports team or theme park might offer to invite students from schools that attain a certain % of students at grade level mastery by the end of 4th grade…
We know that sports and entertainment personalities have a lot of influence over young people. We also know that many of them are very concerned about the future of our country and especially the future of our children. We challenge sports and entertainment personalities to join in promoting this initiative. This could include simply making…
This initiative is very much about the future of an entire generation. As a high school student in the Bronx said, we have to find a way so that not so many of our classmates fail (because the realized that the cost of failure of students would eventually be borne by those that did not…
We challenge the community support groups to take the initiative to help ensure the schools in the community reach the goal of getting every student to full grade level mastery in math before the end of the 4th. This can include getting the word out and encouraging the community to get behind and commit to…
We challenge the national organizations of these types to form a local Community Support Group/Organization to actively support the 4th grade students and teachers in their communities in their effort to achieve full 4th grade level mastery by the end of the 4th grade. This includes assisting in ensuring students have the tools and resources…
We challenge the national organizations of these types to encourage their local chapters and affiliates, to help organize local community support groups to actively support the 4th grade students and teachers in their communities in their effort to achieve full 4th grade level mastery by the end of the 4th grade.