The Military Child Education Coalition has received a $150,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve the likelihood that military-connected children are college and career ready. With both organizations striving to ensure young people reach their full potential, the partnership reflects a shared goal of providing all students with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed beyond high school—in college, career, and life.

In keeping with its mission to ensure educational opportunities for the nation’s nearly 2 million military-connected children, the Military Child Education Coalition will advocate for clear and consistent educational standards across all 50 states. Frequently referred to as Common Core Standards, adoption and implementation of standards in core subject areas such as math, science, reading-language arts, and social studies will benefit all students.

According to Dr. Mary M. Keller, President and CEO of Military Child Education Coalition, Common Core Standards (CCS) are especially beneficial to military-connected children who move three times more frequently than their civilian classmates or experience the turbulence of separation from a parent. These children, with parents serving in the Active Duty, National Guard or Reserve forces, have unique challenges related to the continuity of their learning progress.

“Common Core Standards (CCS) are essential for military-connected students because they increase the predictability and continuity of our highly mobile students’ academic experiences,” explains Dr. Keller. Though frequent school moves can have an adverse impact on student progress in all content areas, the Military Child Education Coalition research and experience clearly substantiates mathematics as the area of highest need and advocacy campaigns will reflect that focus.

This significant effort is paramount in providing needed support to children whose parents support our nation. There are approximately 1.2 million school-aged military-connected children in the U.S. Approximately 80% of these students attend public school and the remaining attend Department of Defense Dependent Schools in Europe and the Pacific, private and parochial schools or are home-schooled.

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The Brazilian Project about a social network that connects students and universities started in June and has since then reached more than 700 schools and universities through their website. Translated into twenty languages and launched in more than 12 countries around Latin America, USA, Spain and Italy, the EDUFINDME will this year reach Europe and Asia.

EDUFINDME has turned out to be a perfect environment for increasing the range of academic relation between institutions and students. It is a platform that beyond the connections made also suggests matches between both parts; students and universities. This is really useful to people searching for good opportunities to study around the world.

It  is also possible to find search engines to be use by both sides with the goal of helping students save time. Instead of using traditional search engines that doesn’t target any specific groups and spend hours searching for universities and courses, this project aims to collect all the important information in one place.

And from the point of view of the universities, it is a great tool to help further their campus internationalization process. It is also a good place to spread the word about scholarships and avoid that good students go unaware about opportunities. At the same time it is perfect for good institutions to connect with the best talents out there.

The whole process of connecting is completely free and easy. First step of the platform is about selling yourself and creating an interactive profile that will attract the right people. After this, you should synchronize your profile with other social media accounts and try increase the network opportunities.

This step will make it even easier to get connected with others. Finally, you will be reached by schools and students. In order to have the best options you will also find different ways to sign up: as an student, as parent searching for the kids, educational provider and agencies.

There are a lot of good programs that go finished but unnoticed and because of this, everybody interested in an academic path with a global perspective and who search for good opportunities should give the EDUFINDME a try.

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