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Launched on August 1, 2024, this ten-year program addresses declining competence levels among many students. It complements state-level efforts to increase educational equity, break the link between educational success and social background, and ensure readiness for training and employment. About 4,000 schools in challenging circumstances participate, reaching around one million students nationwide.
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QuaMath stands for “Developing Quality in Mathematics Teaching and Professional Development.” It is a ten-year program designed to strengthen mathematics education. The core of “QuaMath” consists of suggestions for improving teaching practices and subject-specific, research-based professional development for teachers.

According to the 2018 IQB Education Trend, an average of 55.2 percent of ninth graders nationwide did not meet the regular mathematics standards, and 24.3 percent even failed to reach the minimum standards.

To strengthen the mathematical competencies of children and adolescents, improving the quality of mathematics instruction is essential. So far, there has been a lack of comprehensive support for teachers as well as coherent quality criteria for developing mathematics teaching. This is where QuaMath comes in: professional development for mathematics teachers and those teaching the subject without formal training is the key lever for achieving broad improvements in teaching quality.

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Schools located in socially disadvantaged areas often have a high proportion of socially disadvantaged students. The accumulation of problems places a burden on these children and adolescents and creates challenges for the overall school climate. At the same time, the influence of these schools on students’ learning is particularly significant.

 “Schule macht stark” (Schools Make You Strong) aims to improve the educational opportunities of disadvantaged students and thus make an additional contribution to educational equity in Germany.

This joint initiative by the federal and state governments builds on existing measures in the states, deepens and optimizes them, and provides insights into further development needs through practice-oriented research. New and improved strategies and concepts, evaluated as practically viable, will be transferred to additional schools. The experiences and results from “Schule macht stark” will be incorporated into the Startchancen Program (transfer concept).

This joint initiative improves educational opportunities for disadvantaged students and contributes to educational equity.

 

Providing the best possible learning and educational opportunities for everyone is a central educational policy goal of both the federal and state governments. Through their joint initiative “Leistung macht Schule” (Excellence in Schools) to support high-achieving and potentially highly gifted students, the federal and state governments are committed to ensuring that in the future, many more children and young people have the chance to develop their strengths and talents - regardless of their background, gender, or social status.

A joint initiative by the federal and state governments to support high-performing and potentially highly gifted students.

Education through Language and Literacy (BiSS) is a joint initiative launched by the federal and state governments in October 2012 to improve language support, language diagnostics, and reading promotion in early childhood education settings and schools.

The first program phase began in 2013 with the goal of consolidating, evaluating, and further developing the diverse measures implemented by the states to promote language education, thereby enabling children to receive even better individualized language and reading support from the very beginning in daycare centers and schools. More than 600 schools and daycare centers from all 16 states participated in BiSS. Numerous measures were scientifically reviewed and further developed.