“GRIT = perseverance and passion for long term goals”
The Educationequity foundation (eEF) Mission
EEF, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, provides excellent free STEM tutoring to motivated students who happen to be from families that could not otherwise afford such tutoring. For their tutoring, these students invest their gritty studying, rather than paying dollars.
EEF thereby helps these students academically leverage their grit so that they can succeed in their preparation for fields that require STEM cores.
How EEF ACCOMPLISHES THIS MISSION:
Building STEM bridges
(below example for students hoping to become physicians)
NOTE: EEF’S POST-PANDEMIC FOCUS IS EQUITY IN U.S. MEDICAL EDUCATION. IN PARTICULAR, EEF’S FOCUS IS HELPING LOW-INCOME (LI) UNDERREPRESENTED (UR) PREMEDS PREPARE FOR THE MEDICAL COLLEGE ADMISSION TEST® (MCAT):
The pandemic has highlighted that distrust caused by the inequities in the US medical system has dire Public Health consequences. Having more US physicians who reflect the US demography will alleviate some of this distrust.
LI UR premeds were often underserved in the schools they attended before college. A vicious cycle often results, especially in the Basic Math skills necessary on the Chem/Phys section of the MCAT: they are weak in Math, which leads them to avoid Math and doubt themselves, which further weakens their Math skills, which...
Integrated into EEF’s online MCAT Prep, which EEF provides free to such premeds, are mini-lessons in Basic Math as needed during the guiding of students through their solving of MCAT practice problems.
