Everyone Can Succeed is responding to critically low math scores, the widening Achievement-Gap, and statements from the U.S. Department of Education, whose Commissioner for the National Center for Education statistics declared recent test results, “are another piece of evidence showing the crisis in mathematics achievement.” And, the department’s National Mathematics Advisory Panel has warned, fruitlessly, “Without substantial and sustained changes to our educational system, the United States will relinquish its leadership in this century.” They called for a coordinated national early childhood math initiative to improve mathematics teaching and learning for all children ages 3 to 6. They also recommended development of promising interventions to reduce math anxiety, help students understand the importance of effort in learning math, and scaled-up kindergarten and Pere-K interventions that strengthen mathematical knowledge. Enter the 501(c)3 Everyone Can Succeed.

Our national math crisis initiative was also spurred by The Education Commission of the States. The Commission has stated, “Young children have a surprising capacity to learn substantial mathematics, but most children in the U.S. have a discouraging lack of opportunities to do so. Too many children not only start behind, but they also begin a negative and immutable trajectory in mathematics, with insidious long-term effects.  These negative effects are in one of the most important subjects of academic life and also affect children’s overall life course.”

According to NAEP, the National Assessment for Educational Progress, which the Washington Post calls the Gold Standard, 74% of our country’s eighth graders are not proficient in math. Among African-American students, the number not proficient is 91 percent In October 2023, Peggy Carr, Commissioner of the National Center for Education statistics responded saying, “These results are another piece of evidence showing the crisis in mathematics achievement.”

Everyone Can Succeed's solution is indeed best-practices based, advances young children ahead of grade-level, is well researched, rigorously tested, and directly addresses the concerns expressed by the U.S. Department of Education and the Education Commission of the States, and Commissioner Carr.