A New Frontier for GreatSchools

Since our founding 10 years ago, we have been helping parents make good choices about their children's education. Today, about one in three American parents turns to GreatSchools in a given year to help them decide where to send their children to school and track the performance of their children's schools.

Today, we're announcing that we have received funding to undertake a major new initiative designed to help low- and middle-income families guide their children to graduate from high school ready for college.

More than a year ago, we began to consider: What more could we at GreatSchools do to improve education? How could we do more for our large audience of parents? And what could we do for low-income parents whose children face the steepest climb to college?

Our answer: We should leverage the technology of our times to create a comprehensive parent-training program and support group that inspires and guides parents — especially low-income parents — to raise children who are ready for college.

Funded generously by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Robertson Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation, this new initiative will do just that. Stay tuned!