Distinguished National Academies Recognize
Project Lead The Way

K-12 curriculum materials modeled on world class standards.  Foster high-quality teaching with world class curricula, standards and assessments of student learning.  Convene a national panel to collect, evaluate and develop rigorous K-12 materials that would be available free of charge as a voluntary national curriculum.  The model for this recommendation is the Project Lead The Way pre-engineering courseware.

The National Academy of Sciences, The National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies in their recent report Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future specifically recognized the significant role Project Lead The Way is playing in the United States.

The actual text related to PLTW is as follows:

Project Lead The Way (PLTW) is a national program with partners in public schools, colleges and universities and the private sector. The project has developed a four year sequence of courses that when combined with college preparatory mathematics and science, introduces students to the scope, rigor and discipline of engineering and engineering technology. PLTW has also developed a middle school technology curriculum, Gateway to Technology. Students participating in PLTW courses are better prepared for college engineering programs.