Jobs in Science, technology, engineering, and math will continue to grow into the future. Having students who are prepared to take on these jobs is vitally important to our economy. To help foster this, the American Farmers Grow Rural Education program is giving grants to rural school systems to foster these STEM classes.
Read how American farmers are encouraging schools to boost their STEM education.
Farmers Education program award grants to schools to improve their STEM programs.
A benefit to these grants is more opportunity for small school systems to improve their STEM programs and provide better educational opportunities. Another is the excitement that it fosters in the students resulting in better enrollment and retention in these programs. The Farmers Education program is helping to ensure the success of the next generation of students.
To help K-12 educators enhance their STEM curriculum, the America’s Farmers Grow Rural Education program, sponsored by the Monsanto Fund, will once again provide farmers with the opportunity to nominate their local public schools for opportunities to receive $10,000 and $25,000 grants.
Laura Lurns · Learning Success expert
Key takeaways
- The America’s Farmers Grow Rural Education program provides grants to schools enabling them to improve STEM programs.
- Schools that have previously won the grants point to improved scores and better understanding of science, technology, engineering and math among students district wide.
- Community members can make nominations until April of 2017.
Take the dyscalculia test
Is your child struggling in school?
Get your free personalized learning roadmap
You describe what you see at home. We turn it into a plan you start this week.
- Answer 5 short questionnaires about what you already notice, 30–45 minutes at your own kitchen table
- Your child sits no test and gets no score: nothing to schedule, nothing for them to dread
- You do the answering, the AI does the writing, and a person reviews it before it reaches you
- Access all 40+ courses instantly: reading, math, focus, processing and more, with new ones added regularly
Why we use AI, plainly: it writes from a knowledge base our team maintains and audits. We work through it line by line and pull anything the evidence stops supporting. The roadmap you get on Tuesday reflects what we corrected on Monday, and a human still reads it before you do.
Your school district must evaluate your child free of charge if you ask in writing, whatever your income and whatever the outcome (US, 34 CFR 300.111 and 300.301(b)). That route takes time and answers a different question than you do. This one starts today, from what you already know.
Your answers stay yours. We do not sell your personal information, and we do not hand identifiable assessment data to outside AI companies to train their models.
A screener is a starting point, not a diagnosis. If your child might need formal accommodations (an IEP or 504 plan), or you suspect a vision, hearing or medical cause, pursue a professional evaluation too. That is the only route to those supports.
