Billion Smiles

billion smiles is a national educational non-profit organization that is dedicated to helping low-income children do better in school by improving their learning environment at home. to achieve this goal, billion smiles operates high-impact interventions and works to shape public policy on the importance of expanding educational priorities to include learning in the home. billion smiles’ direct-service operations are designed to help educators strengthen the school-home connection and provide families with the key ingredients required improving their home learning environment -- a home computer loaded with selected educational software; online family learning services; information about affordable broadband options; and hands-on training designed to help parents become more effective learning partners. studies confirm that billion smiles’ programs have significantly improved students’ test scores and class effort and have increased parents’ confidence in them as learning partners. bill