volunteers needed, Achieve Now

Posted by on May 20, 2013

Call to Action
We intend to improve educational outcomes in our city.
Join us. Be the change.

We invite you to coach a Philadelphia elementary school student who is struggling in reading or math. Using a scripted, step-by-step program with a proven track record of success, you will give your student the gift of literacy – a prerequisite for success in any endeavor – or coach them as they master the vital fundamentals of math.

Achieve Now

Achieve Now is a non-profit organization driven by a single goal: to address the literacy and mathematics crisis in our region. Our mission is to move children in chronically under-performing communities to grade-level reading and math, providing them with the building blocks of a successful life.

We equip volunteers with literacy and numeracy programs that have a proven record of success moving students from performing below grade level to testing at or above grade level in an accelerated time frame.

Our vision is bold: move 10,000 children to literacy fluency or numeracy competency by June, 2015 as measured by their scoring proficient or better on state standardized tests.

Get involved. You can make a difference.

• The facts behind the literacy crisis:
• In 2012, fewer than 45% of Philadelphia school children were able to read at     grade level.
• 34% of students tested at Below Basic, the lowest level.
• Philadelphia’s current high school graduation rate is 63% (percent of 9th graders who graduate in four years).

The literacy rates among fourth grade students across America are equally sobering. An alarming number of children – about 67% nationwide and more than 80% of those from low-income families – are not proficient readers by the end of third grade. The US ranks 25th in math worldwide.

To learn more, volunteer or bring Achieve Now to your students, call us: 215-687-8202 or email: [email protected].