The Middle States Association
Establishing clear organizational objectives can focus a school on what's needed to promote academic and social/emotional achievement among students it serves. Non-profit agencies can assist in this process.
The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools is a voluntary, non-governmental, nonprofit, peer administered organization of diverse educational institutions in the Middle Atlantic States region of the United States, American territories in the Caribbean, and American and International educational institutions in Europe, Africa and the Mideast. For more than 75 years, the Association has worked to encourage, advance, assist, and preserve the achievement of quality education in the Middle Atlantic States Region.
The Middle States Association is one of six similar regional accrediting associations which together serve the entire United States. Membership is open to public and non-public schools and colleges.
The Association's Accreditation For Growth program is particularly powerful, compelling schools who engage in the process to develop committee's that work to help gear a program towards meeting agreed-upon objectives.
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- The International Baccalaureate Organization
The IBO n is a non-profit educational organization that was established in 1968. The IBO is governed by a 16 member Council of Foundation. It is funded by fees from IB world schools, with additional income from workshops and catalogue sales.
Donors provide support for development projects that otherwise cannot be implemented from the organization's budget. The IBO's Annual review and financial report (pdf. 447 kb) gives details about its income and expenditures.
The IBO offers three programmes to a wide variety of schools located throughout the world:
•the Diploma Programme, for students in the final two years of school before university;
• the Middle Years Programme (MYP) for students aged 11 to 16;
•the Primary Years Programme (PYP) is for students aged 3 to 12.Services
The IBO provides IB world schools with:
•detailed curriculum guidelines for each programme and subject area
•teacher training workshops
•online access to 3,000 education resources, subject area experts, and discussion sessions with teachers at IB schools throughout the world
•external assessment of Diploma Programme students' work
•procedures for school-based (internal) assessment of student work
The IBO's regional offices and regional representatives work closely with schools that are interested in applying for authorization, with those that are in the process of implementing the PYP, MYP or DP to gain authorization, and with IB world schools.
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